Wednesday, December 22, 2010

P.E.I. storm closes roads, bridges

Tuesday December 21, 2010 North Rustico,Prince Edward Island , Canada

...Prince Edward Island (click title to entry - thank you) was under storm surge, wind, and rainfall warnings throughout Tuesday, as several roads and smaller bridges closed across the province.
There were multiple reports of flooding across the province, restrictions were in place on the Confederation Bridge, and a wind turbine in the Hunter River area was bent in half.
High winds caused trees to topple into the middle of roads and on top of parked cars and power lines.
Maritime Electric was dealing with 5,800 customers without power at the peak of the outages. That number has fluctuated throughout the day, but mostly hovered at around 500 to 600....