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Weakened Hurricane Kyle heads towards Canada
A weakening Hurricane Kyle spun past Maine's rugged eastern coast Sunday, delivering a glancing blow as it moved on to Canada.
- AP
- Published: 09:31 September 29, 2008
Maine: A weakening Hurricane Kyle spun past Maine's rugged eastern coast Sunday, delivering a glancing blow as it moved on to Canada.
As darkness fell, the storm produced winds hard enough to jiggle road signs, cause scattered power outages and rip early-autumn leaves from trees while lashing the Maine coast with a third straight day of heavy rain. Flooding closed roads as the storm sped up the Bay of Fundy, which separates Maine and the Canadian province of New Brunswick from Nova Scotia.
Kyle made landfall on Sunday night in southern Nova Scotia as a marginal Category 1 hurricane and was later downgraded to a tropical storm by the Canadian Hurricane Centre. Some 12,000 power outages were reported in the province.
Maine emergency responders had braced for wind gusts as high as 97 kph and waves up to 6.1 meters, but as the storm edged eastward it became clear that the state had escaped a direct hit.
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