After disrupting Labor Day weekend plans for tens of millions of East Coastal residents and tourists, Earl finally made a blustery landfall Saturday morning in Canada's Nova Scotia province, where one man died.
The storm, downgraded overnight from hurricane to tropical storm, again packed hurricane-speed winds when it made landfall, and then weakened once more before heading out to the frigid Atlantic.
Winds gusting to 80 mph downed trees, flooded roads and left 200,000 customers without power. The province has a population of about 940,000.
"We are still classifying this storm as a hurricane, based on the overnight presentation of the storm on satellite and radar," said Chris Fogarty, program supervisor at Canadian Hurricane Center said at the time. "The eye is still very much intact."
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