I just want to open my eyes and it's like, oh, it's OK, this was just a bad dream. "I feel like I'm awake in a living nightmare. Getz said they will be permitted to stay at the centre as long as they need. "But there's no vacancy, it's extremely expensive…. Getz said the building is now condemned and, while they will be able to return to collect their belongings, they need to find a new home. Mercury Getz, left, and her mother Alicia Getz are staying at an evacutaion centre because the roof caved in on their apartment in Spryfield. And I know there's a lot of people out there without power and I just wish I could be one that's without power but still have my home." They had to leave their home in the Spryfield neighbourhood of Halifax because the roof of their apartment building caved in. Apartment building condemnedĪlicia Getz and her daughter Mercury are staying at an evacuation shelter in the Canada Games Centre. She said the municipality is working with Feed Nova Scotia as well as volunteers and food trucks to make food available.įleck said the areas of HRM including Cole Harbour, Bissett Road, all along the Eastern Shore and Tantallon are in need of water. "A lot of food insecurity because of the prolonged power outages, food is well past spoiled by now.… It's not safe to use."
"It was as if somebody threw a hand grenade up in the tree and the tree just blew apart, instead of blowing down." Need for water, foodįleck, with Halifax Regional Fire and Emergency, said food and water are among the most significant needs right now. Unlike Hurricane Juan, which seemed to have largely pushed trees down, Talbot said with Fiona, "it seemed like the trees blew up." Talbot said the wind in Fiona seems to have come from a direction that had never tested some trees before, which contributed to the damage. until dark, working with the municipality, Nova Scotia Power, insurance companies and with individual homeowners. (Nova Scotia Power/Twitter)Ĭrews have been going "flat-out" from 5 a.m.
Nova Scotia Power crews and the Canadian Armed Forces working together.
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