About 54,000 utility customers in Maine are currently without power, according to Poweroutage.us, after post-tropical cyclone Lee made landfall in Nova Scotia in eastern Canada. At the same time, a second death related to Lee was reported in the U.S.
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Lee made landfall on Long Island in Digby County, Nova Scotia at around 4 p.m. Saturday with maximum sustained winds of 70 mph, just under hurricane-strength, according to the National Hurricane Center.
The storm was moving across eastern Canada on Saturday night, and flooding was taking place along the country's Atlantic coast, U.S. forecasters said late Saturday.
Formerly a hurricane, Lee became a post-tropical cyclone Saturday because it no longer possesses the characteristics to be considered tropical.
A second death related to Lee in the U.S. was reported Saturday as the sprawling storm pounded New England with damaging winds that left more 300,000 customers across both the U.S. and Canada without power during the peak of the cyclone.
The first death happened in Florida earlier this week when then-Hurricane Lee churned up dangerous rip currents that officials said led to the drowning of a 15-year-old swimmer. On Saturday, police said winds from Post-Tropical Cyclone Lee knocked down a tree onto a car in Searsport, Maine, and killed a 50-year-old man inside.
According to the National Hurricane Center, the storm came ashore on Long Island off Nova Scotia, Canada, with winds of about 70 mph.
