To make landfall in South Western Nova Scotia Canada Saturday afternoon. I live in Halifax NS on the Eastern Shore so hopefully not too much impact on us. I'm prepared just in case.
@Musicman My daughter lives in another part of the city but doesn't have any room in her small apartment. My brothers and other family members all live directly in Lee's path. I'm praying for them.
@4meAndyou The gist of it is in the Annapolis Valley from Yarmouth up the Bay of Fundy coast. Here we have high winds but no rain...yet. The power is out in some areas around Halifax County but not in my area. I live on the hospital power grid so if the power goes out we're the first to get it back.
@Starmaiden I live quite near the water in Plymouth, Massachusetts, and we have had high wind gusts all day, but it is nothing like we feared. Power never went out.
I admit to being surprised because I live on much the same latitude but on the opposite side of the Atlantic, and though the Northern French coasts, British Isles and Scandinavia have severe storms occasionally, we never have hurricanes. Though of course things could change...
Oddly, England and Holland have more tornadoes than anyone else. but almost all are too small, weak and short-lived to do any damage.
@ArishMell Hurricanes form just off of Africa and move westward across the Atlantic. Most times they make landfall in Florida or the Carolina States but sometimes they turn a slight arc and move northward toward Atlantic Canada, much like what Lee has done.
@Starmaiden Thank you for explaining it. Most of the worst seem to stay in the sub-tropics and lose power as they come over land, but I didn't know they could travel that far North.
If you do get hit by Lee, I think it'll be minimum problems. Right now it's a cat 1. It was at one point a cat 5 but as it's been moving north it's been getting weaker.
At most I think you could see winds at 40 to 60mph and a lot of rain, but I don't think you will see catastrophic damage.
