The federal government is sending help to Newfoundland after the province was hammered with a historic snowfall that buried homes and triggered a state of emergency in St. John’s.
saying the federal government was already working to deploy all available resources on the ground.
The intense snowfall that brought St. John's and many other communities to a standstill on Friday slowed overnight and ended in the capital Saturday morning. "I was hallucinating. I've done some stupid things, but that was the dumbest thing I've ever done in my life," he said. There have also been widespread power outages. Newfoundland Power said Saturday its crews had been working to restore electricity for about 21,000 customers hit by the storm.
Meanwhile, winds at the St. John's International Airport were recorded at between 120 and 157 kilometres per hour at the height of the storm. Early in the morning when the snowplow came to clear his street, Breen said he could hear the vehicle but he couldn't see it because there was so much snow. "We lost a roof off a house as part of a structure fire," she said in an interview. "With the extensive winds you will have some damage. Our challenge hasn't necessarily been downed power lines, it's been getting our trucks around."
Ashley Fitzpatrick, 28, was among the thousands of residents when went outside through the day to begin shovelling or using a snowblower.
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