Hurricane Fiona batters east coast

Hurricane Fiona hit the east coast on Friday, leaving hundreds of thousands of homes in the Atlantic provinces and Quebec’s Magdalen Islands without power. Hardware stores felt the crunch as customers sought out generators ahead of the storm’s landfall. “We sold 10 to 12 since yesterday afternoon I believe and we have a few left, but they’re going very quick,” Vince MacLellan, manager of a Sydney, N.S., department store, told CTV News. One P.E.I. Castle store, pictured here, succumbed to the force of the hurricane.