Kyle Leavitt, director of the New Brunswick Emergency Management Organization, urged residents to stay home, saying, "Nothing good can come from checking out the big waves and how strong the wind truly is." In Canada, Ian Hubbard, a meteorologist for Environment and Climate Change Canada and the Canadian Hurricane Centre, said Lee won't be anywhere near the severity of the remnants of Hurricane Fiona, which washed houses into the ocean, knocked out power to most of two provinces and swept a woman into the sea a year ago.īut it was still a dangerous storm. Up to 4 inches of rain was forecast for eastern Maine. Parts of coastal Maine could see waves up to 15 feet high crashing down, causing erosion and damage, and the strong gusts will cause power outages, said Louise Fode, a National Weather Service meteorologist in Maine. While landfall was projected for nearby Nova Scotia, the Category 1 system was big enough to cause concerns over a wide area even if it weakens to a tropical storm. Some were pulling their boats out, as well. In South Thomaston, Dave Cousens, who lost fishing gear when Hurricane Bob came through in 1991, said lobstermen were busy moving their traps, which cost $100 to $170 apiece, out of harm's way to try to avoid damage from the rough seas. He was not concerned about staying there in the storm. Train, who is also a firefighter, was going to wait out the storm on the island in Casco Bay. On Long Island, Maine, off of Portland, commercial lobster fisherman Steve Train had just finished hauling 200 traps out of the water. There was little else to be done but wait and worry, and make final preparations as Lee spun about 395 miles southeast of Nantucket, Massachusetts, and moved away from Bermuda. Forecasters said there would be winds topping 40 mph across the region ahead of landfall expected Saturday afternoon.
Lee remained a hurricane with 80 mph winds Friday afternoon as it headed toward New England and eastern Canada with 20-foot ocean swells, strong winds and rain. The storm is projected to be more than 400 miles wide with tropical-storm-force winds when it reaches land, creating worries of power outages in Maine, the nation's most heavily forested state, where the ground is saturated and trees are weakened from heavy summer rains. BAR HARBOR, Maine - Fishermen removed lobster traps from the water and residents hauled hundreds of boats ashore - leaving some harbors looking like ghost towns - while utility workers from as far away as Tennessee began taking up positions Friday ahead of Hurricane Lee's heavy winds, high seas and rain spanning hundreds of miles of land and sea.
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