Bomb cyclone photos: Storm hits Vancouver Island the hardest

A large cleanup was underway crossed galore parts of Vancouver Island connected Wednesday aft a almighty bomb cyclone battered the South Coast.

Vancouver Island was deed the hardest with hurricane-force winds knocking retired power, closing roads and forcing ferry cancellations.

At its peak, astir 100,000 homes and businesses crossed Vancouver Island were without power.

Downtown Parksville was plunged into darkness.

North of Parksville, successful Courtenay, the beardown winds flipped a level connected its extortion astatine the section airport, a sailboat crashed up connected the rocks and galore trees came down successful yards and connected vehicles.

Crews were moving hard each time to wide trees fallen crossed the roadworthy successful Cathedral Grove adjacent Port Alberni.

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Along the westbound broadside of Vancouver Island, crews were engaged each time clearing downed trees and branches, repairing inferior lines and learning debris disconnected roads.

“It’s been truly engaged contiguous for sure,” Ken Redford with Elevated Tree Service told Global News.

“It didn’t look similar it was going to beryllium past night, but determination was tons of carnage successful the area… there’s been rather a fewer jobs that person travel successful with trees connected houses and powerfulness lines.”

Armel Castellan with Environment Canada said the occidental and bluish coasts of Vancouver Island were deed the hardest.

“The winds were truly strong,” helium said.

“I mean they picked up yesterday. We saw near-record-breaking (winds) astatine Sartin Island, which is retired successful the mediate of nowhere.”

Castellan said winds astatine the bluish extremity of the land reached 170 km/h, which is hurricane-strength.