Canada struggles to restore power after storm

Hundreds of thousands of people in Atlantic Canada remained without power Sunday as the cyclone Fiona swept away houses, stripped off roofs and blocked roads across the country's Atlantic provinces. After surging north from the Caribbean, Fiona came ashore before dawn Saturday as a post-tropical cyclone, battering Nova Scotia, Prince Edward Island, Newfoundland and Quebec with hurricane-strength winds, rains and waves. Troops would help remove fallen trees, restore transportation links and do whatever else is required for as long as it takes.

Tim Houston, Premier of Nova Scotia  said "We know that the climate is changing for sure. We're seeing you know; look around the world, you're seeing fire, storms. Certainly, this is a historic storm for this province, there's no question about that. The damage is significant. But right now, the priority right now is getting power back to people, getting people a safe shelter, getting, you know, some some return to normal. That will take time”.

 More than 415,000 Nova Scotia Power customers — about 80% in the province of almost 1 million people — had been affected by outages Saturday. Over 200 people were in temporary shelters.