Port aux Basques

As she stood near the remnants of flattened homes in Port aux Basques, N.L., Denise Anderson said the thought of continuing to live next to the ocean is hard after a deadly storm foreshadowed the violence of weather to come.

Distraught residents of a southwestern Newfoundland town shared stories of survival with Justin Trudeau on Wednesday, September 28, 2022, as the prime minister got a close look at yet another coastal town shattered on the weekend by post-tropical storm Fiona.

Denise Anderson shouted a list of items into her phone over the sound of pouring rain, along with instructions on how to find them: clean socks, a new pack of underwear, prized pieces of jewelry and important documents.

A day after post-tropical storm Fiona left a trail of destruction across Atlantic Canada and eastern Quebec, residents of a devastated coastal town in western Newfoundland learned one of their own was its first confirmed fatality.

Towns in Cape Breton and on Newfoundland's southern coast declared states of emergency on Saturday, September 24, 2022, as post-tropical storm Fiona — one of the strongest storms to ever strike Eastern Canada — continued to lash the region.

Nova Scotia Premier Tim Houston said Thursday it would cost at least $7 million to repair the damage, adding the province would apply for federal funds. "There's a lot of work to be done to rebuild, repair, restore."