Practically two weeks after Fiona wreaked havoc throughout Atlantic Canada, greater than 3,000 Nova Scotia Energy clients are nonetheless ready to be restored.
Dave Coady lives in McLellans Brook, N.S. – a village close to New Glasgow.
He can recall precisely when he misplaced energy and the way lengthy it has been.
“13 days and it is simply loopy,” he stated.
Coady is operating a generator that does not at all times begin. He says he is additionally spent his complete pension cheque to gas that generator, save meals, and energy his sleep apnea machine.
Though the storm has handed, he nonetheless feels he is within the midst of it.
“It feels such as you’re out within the ocean and also you’ve obtained no assist, however we’re in our home and we’ve obtained no assist,” stated Coady.
Coady additionally confronted unhappy information following the storm after one among his canines died throughout the peak of it.
“We miss her and it is onerous to grieve and undergo this on the identical time,” he stated.
Coady says a neighborhood group gave them a propane tank, and neighbours helped take away downed bushes. He says he was instructed by N.S. Energy that his energy might be restored by Sunday.
Simply down the street, Donna Jenkins says her house is OK following the storm and her energy has been restored. Nonetheless, her barn was obliterated because of Fiona.
“This barn has been right here for 49 years. Whenever you see it down, you simply can’t consider it,” she stated.
She says the barn was wrapped in recollections of her late husband, though she’s nonetheless attempting to see the optimistic facet of issues.
“I used to be one of many lucky ones as a result of there was no injury finished to my residence,” stated Jenkins.
Nonetheless, her cleanup will nonetheless be expensive.
“It’s going to take time however what the heck. We now have it. Proper?” she stated.