Last year Hurricane Fiona tested everyone`s readiness in Atlantic Canada. Learn what it took to make it through.

Hurricane Fiona made landfall in September 2022 and would go down as one of the most brutal weather events to impact eastern Canada, affecting Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, and Prince Edward Island. The hurricane recorded winds over 165kph, claimed twenty-five lives, and caused over $845 million in damage, making it one of the costliest extreme weather events in Canada to date. The storm made businesses inoperable and rendered homes unlivable, leaving residents with an uphill battle to get the regions back to life as they knew it.

You can’t outsmart a crisis, but you can prepare for it. We were on high alert before Hurricane Fiona made landfall and knew that there was a good chance Atlantic Canada would suffer significant loss. While restoration is traditionally about responding to crisis, we are keen on preparing prior to the storm hitting the region.

Our teams in Atlantic Canada began communicating with the organization at large to determine which project managers and field staff would be responding if Fiona made landfall. We readied regional offices and identified the resources needed in and around the areas at risk. Trailers were stocked with equipment and put on standby with generators, drying equipment, and other resources ready to go at a moment’s notice.

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