NVDL: The Laura storm is really far north. Very unusual I'd say.
MACHIAS, Maine - It threatened to be the first hurricane in 17 years to make landfall in Maine. Instead, Kyle delivered little more than a glancing blow equivalent to that of a classic nor'easter.
In Canada, the storm arrived on the eve of the fifth anniversary of Hurricane Juan, a Category 2 storm that killed two people and caused an estimated $100 million in damage. Canadian officials said Kyle's impact would not be as severe.
"Its going to be pretty bad around here," Donnie Ross said as he hurried across the bow of his fishing vessel in Cape Sable Island, Nova Scotia. "We have a lot of boats that are worth a lot of money and if any of them let go it will smash the rest of them up."
The deadliest storm to hit the Northeast was in 1938 when a hurricane killed 700 people and destroyed 63,000 homes on New York's Long Island and throughout New England. Other hurricanes that have hit Maine were Carol and Edna in 1954, Donna in 1960 and Gloria in 1985.
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