Hurricane Juan anniversary marked for 11th year
Posted Sep 29, 2014 04:21:19 PM.
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Monday marks the 11th anniversary of the arrival of Hurricane Juan to the shores of Nova Scotia.
The storm made landfall between Shad Bay and Prospect as a category 2 hurricane on Sept. 29, 2003.
News 95.7’s meteorologist Richard Zurawski said the storm knocked down thousands of trees, but he suggests things could have been a whole lot worse.
“We were so incredibly lucky,” he said.
Zurawski was part of a crew filming a documentary about hurricanes at the time of the storm.
“Our film crews got a chance to get into the chase plane [and] fly into the eye of the hurricane,” he said.
A state of emergency was declared in HRM, as well as Hants and Colchester counties in the aftermath of the storm, and 300,000 people were without power — some for almost two weeks.
Two people were killed, and damage from the storm was estimated at $100 million.
