Hurricane Fiona drenched Bermuda with heavy rain and buffeted the Atlantic island with hurricane-force winds on Friday as it tracked northward towards eastern Canada, where it threatens to become one of the most severe storms in Canadian history.
Fiona had already battered a series of Caribbean islands earlier in the week, killing at least eight people and knocking out power for almost all of Puerto Rico's 3.3 million people during a sweltering heatwave.
Overnight, the storm approached Bermuda as a Category 4 storm but diminished a notch to Category 3 as it passed west of the British territory. Still, gusts reached as high as 165 kilometres per hour, the Bermuda Weather Service said.
The Bermuda Electric Light Company, the island's sole power provider, said about 29,000 customers, or more than 80 per cent of its customer base, had no electricity on Friday morning.
But Michelle Pitcher, deputy director of the Bermuda Weather Service, said the territory appeared to be largely unscathed.
“It's been a long night but there are no reports of injuries or fatalities,” she said. “There may be people with roof damage, but so far, we haven't heard of anything bad. As I said, we build our houses strong.”
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