People in the Newfoundland province of the Canadian Atlantic coast woke up in streets full of branches and debris, torn and swept away by the fierce winds of Hurricane Larry
ST. JOHN’S, Newfoundland – People in the Canadian Atlantic Coast Lands province woke up Saturday to streets full of branches and debris, torn and swept away by the fierce winds of Hurricane Larry.
Larry made landfall as a Category 1 storm just after midnight on Friday along the island’s south coast, causing heavy rains and sustained winds of 130 km / h (80 miles) across the Avalon Peninsula. , which includes the provincial capital of St. John’s.
City streets were linked to fallen branches Saturday morning and trees were uprooted and felled on many lawns. The city of San Juan is asking residents to stay home if crews can clean up torn branches, torn down power lines and scattered debris.
“Hurricane Larry caused a significant amount of damage to trees and property throughout our city,” the mayor of St. Louis said. John, Danny Breen, at a press conference Saturday.
Still, he said, “it could have been a lot worse.”
A small crowd gathered around Saturday at Mary Queen of Peace Elementary School, shaking their heads slowly as fragments of the school’s cracked roof whirled in the remaining winds. Much of the roof was ripped from the building and left on a pile of planks and planks nailed to the ground at some distance.
About 10,000 people in St. John’s were still without electricity Saturday evening, the Newfoundland Power website said. Earlier in the day, more than 30,000 in the subway region were in the dark.
Lights and coffee makers were turned on at a provincial art gallery in Tim Horton, near the Rooms Room, and scheduling for a snake morning coffee by the restaurant and by the door.
Brandon Snook was outside the cafeteria with his young son, Myles, while his wife was holding some cups inside. They had no power to make it their own, he said.
Myles slept through the night, Snook said, clearly impressed. “My sister, her little one, lost her playhouse,” he said. “It shattered against the house in about two million pieces.”
His own house managed to do just fine, he said, just a little loose lining.
An empty building near the Rawlins Cross junction was not so lucky; several of the windows facing the traffic were shattered in their frames, leaving the interior of the building completely exposed.
On the street, some parts of the green iron fences surrounding the cathedral of the basilica had fallen and several windows of the massive structures were missing.
The Royal Newfoundland Constabulary urged pedestrians and drivers across the peninsula to stay home as officers swept the area to report fallen trees and power lines.
Newfoundland Power, meanwhile, assured those in the dark that crews had been out since dawn to work on the power lines.