JUAN's death toll at 5

tropicana · #1 Postby **tropicana** » Fri Oct 03, 2003 9:23 pm

Just as info...i found this at the Canadian Hurricane Centre web site:

Juan claimed the lives of five individuals: two when trees fell on their motor vehicle, and three in a house fire speculated to have been started by candles used during power outages.

Hurricane Juan will be recorded as one of the most damaging storms in modern history for Halifax, N.S. (as measured by the widespread tree blow-downs, power outages, and damaged homes). Hundreds of thousands of Maritimers in Nova Scotia and Prince Edward Island lost power when the storm passed Sunday night, with tens of thousands still without power as the weekend approaches. The last time that the city of Halifax was hit by the eastern eyewall of a hurricane (the worst winds in such a storm) was on August 22, 1893, when a Category 2/3 ( sustained winds of 176-185 km/h) storm made landfall in St. Margaret's Bay near 3.00 a.m. ADT. That storm, known then as "the second Great August Gale," claimed 25 lives and sank the vessels, "Dorcas," and "Etta Stewart."

montrealboy · #2 Postby **montrealboy** » Fri Oct 03, 2003 11:36 pm

Courtersy of Environment Canada's Web site (Canadian National Hurricane Center)
http://atl.weatheroffice.ec.gc.ca/weath ... tos_e.html

shaner · #3 Postby **shaner** » Fri Oct 03, 2003 11:55 pm

Wow. Thanks for posting that.

Anonymous · #4 Postby **Anonymous** » Sat Oct 04, 2003 9:37 am

I had NO idea Juan was THAT bad. That name may be swiped (it should have been in 1985).

PTrackerLA · #5 Postby **PTrackerLA** » Sat Oct 04, 2003 12:41 pm

That's quite a bit of damage, didn't know it was that bad either.

Josephine96 · #6 Postby **Josephine96** » Sat Oct 04, 2003 1:08 pm

and wasn't Juan just a category 1! my god.. the damage photos are unbelievable..

Good pics..

SolakNC · #7 Postby **SolakNC** » Sat Oct 04, 2003 2:00 pm

Great pics.... VERY impressive --- thanks!

Now, playing devil's advocate here for a sec... Living on the coast, I'm curious to know if the building codes in NS are as stringent as they are here in the states in hurricane territory?

weatherluvr · #8 Postby **weatherluvr** » Sat Oct 04, 2003 2:05 pm

I'm not 100% informed on Canadian building codes, but I imagine there has to be some fairly strict measures in place not just for the odd hurricane, but more for the "bomb" nor'easters that buffet that region every winter that can be every bit as damaging as a hurricane, if not more so.

JUAN's death toll at 5

JUAN's death toll at 5

More pictures of Juan's damage in Nova Scotia

I had no idea....

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