Severe weather in Newfoundland leaves ships stranded ashore, damages houses
LARK HARBOUR, N.L. — A severe wind storm that pounded Newfoundland’s west coast on Friday was a “bad nightmare” for at least one resident who said his community looked like a “war zone” after the gusts subsided.
“Today was the worst day I’ve ever seen in my life for wind in Port Saunders harbour,” said Conway Caines, 38, who has lived in the Newfoundland and Labrador community all his life.
“It was like a bad nightmare … There was nothing but destruction,” he said in a phone interview a day after the storm.
Caines, who makes a living fishing, said the wharf “looked like a war zone” after a storm surge that “smashed them off like tooth picks.”