Satellite Images Show Havoc Wreaked By Hurricane Lee In The US, Canada
The National Geodetic Survey of the United States National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration has started releasing aerial images that show the extent of damage caused by the Atlantic tropical storm Lee. NOAA aircrafts began collecting the images from September 17, 2023.
Hurricane Lee landfall
Storm Lee made landfall at around 4pm in far western Nova Scotia on Saturday, with winds whipping at 70mph, which killed one person and left thousands without electricity.
A 51-year-old motorist died in Searsport, Maine, after a large tree limb fell on his vehicle on a US highway.The tree limb brought down live power lines, and utility workers had to cut power before the man could be removed, said police chief Brian Lunt.
¡°At peak strength, Lee packed winds of 165 mph, making it the strongest hurricane in the Atlantic basin since Dorian in 2019, which had catastrophic winds of 185 mph,¡± a report in Accuweather, a weather news publication.
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Power outages for thousands of people
The storm was so big that it caused power outages several hundred miles from its center. At midday Saturday, 11 per cent of electricity customers in Maine lacked power, along with 27 per cent of Nova Scotia, 8 per cent of New Brunswick and 3 per cent of Prince Edward Island.
Trees were uprooted and powerlines snapped, plunging many neighbourhoods into darkness for hours together. Travel became impossible as floodwaters submerged roads. Several flights and ferries were also cancelled.
¡°A couple historic trees believed to be more than 100 years old have been downed in uptown Saint John,¡± according to a story in the television network CTV Atlantic. ?
Although both Massachusetts and Maine previously declared states of emergency, Massachusetts lifted its state of emergency on Saturday.
The Hurricane Center issued a tropical storm warning for hundreds of miles of coastline from Massachusetts to Nova Scotia, affecting some 9 million people.
Canada suffered too
The Canadian province has already faced at least three episodes of natural disasters this year, with a violent wildfire in May and deadly floods in July.
Meanwhile, another storm named Hurricane Nigel is brewing over the central Atlantic and may ¡°strengthen into a major hurricane in the coming days¡±, according to Accuweather.
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