A Carbonear family has a clean-up on their hands after strong winds last night caused extensive damage to their property.
Terry Clarke says he was jolted awake around 1 a.m. to a loud cracking noise.
When he investigated, he found that his clothesline pole had cracked off and struck his deck.
He investigated further in the morning after the sun rose to discover that a massive tree on the back of his property had fallen across his clothesline, cracking off the pole to which it was connected.
St. John’s Airport reported winds gusting as high as 115 km/h last night.
Some people are tweeting out that they have salt spray on their house even though they live quite a distance from the ocean. Another person tweeted that he woke at 1 p.m. this morning to see if his house was still in CBS.
In central Newfoundland, on the west coast and in many parts of Labrador, the issue is snow.
Makkovik has 35 cm and counting according to meteorologist David Neal while Upper Lake Melville has another 30 cm so far.
Power remains out on Change Islands and Fogo Island. Hydro crews are waiting for the ferry to resume service to get to the area to begin repairs.
These photos show some of the damage to equipment on Change Islands caused by the high winds & heavy snow, which resulted in outages there and on Fogo Island. Our crews will be on the way to make repairs as soon as weather conditions improve & the ferry can safely resume service. pic.twitter.com/2FExeWtmLs
— NLHydro (@NLHydro) December 16, 2020
