One of the big questions now is about rebuilding and whether to challenge Mother Nature and go back to living along the coastlines on the southwest coast.

Joel Finnis, a climatologist with the Department of Geography at MUN, says the storm should force us to think about climate change now and reduce our use of fossil fuels.

Houses that had stood for well over a hundred years were swept away like matchsticks.

Finnis says extreme weather events are becoming more intense and common.

He says we in this province have to think either about retreating from the coastline or protection from the ocean.