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Yahoo! My Yahoo! Mail More Yahoo! Services Account Options New User? Sign Up Sign In Help Yahoo! Search web search Home Singapore Asia Pacific World Business Entertainment Sports Technology Africa Europe Latin America Middle East North America Earl socks Canada's Nova Scotia, weakens to tropical storm AFP - 23 minutes ago Send IM Story Print MONTREAL (AFP) - – Resilient Tropical Storm Earl raked over eastern Canada Saturday, leaving nearly one million people without power, the last gasp of what was once a monster storm that menaced the US East Coast but left it largely undamaged. The center of the storm made landfall as a hurricane in southern Nova Scotia shortly after 11:00 am (1400 GMT), but the Canadian Hurricane Centre (CHC) later said its strength steadily fell as it buffeted the craggy coastline with winds up to 102 kilometers (63 miles) per hour. Although weakened to a tropical storm over land, Earl still pounded Halifax, the region's largest city, with high winds and rain. By 2:30 pm (1830 GMT), some 210,000 homes and 940,000 people in the region were without power, Nova Scotia Power said. The weather system already lost some steam as it roared up the US eastern seaboard overnight, when it dropped to tropical storm strength. CHC meteorologist John Parker said wind speeds of up to 120 kilometers (75 miles) per hour were registered as the storm made landfall, just above the marker for hurricane strength winds of 119 kilometers (74 miles) per hour. Greater Moncton International Airport canceled all flights Saturday, and Halifax Stanfield International Airport was under partial operation. Earlier this week, Earl lashed several hundred kilometers (miles) of the US East Coast seaboard with heavy rains and strong winds, disrupting holiday plans for millions and prompting evacuations in North Carolina. It had also prompted hurricane warnings in the northeastern US state of Massachusetts, notably its vacation destinations including Cape Cod and the tiny islands of Nantucket and Martha's Vineyard. But while residents battened down the hatches, the storm dealt the region only a glancing blow. "We had a lot of hype but no action, which was good," the wife of a former attendant at the historic Chatham Lighthouse on Cape Cod told AFP Saturday. "It's over. There's blue sky, sunshine, very little rain," said the woman who identified herself only as Mrs Davis, adding that winds and rain were strong overnight but did not cause major damage. Authorities were clear: coastal communities dodged a bullet. "We're ecstatic it didn't happen," Craig Fugate, chief of the US Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), told reporters Saturday, referring to the expected devastation. US communities suffered "very minimal impacts," with no reports of fatalities, he said, and states were shutting down their emergency management centers. Residents of North Carolina were mopping up after a storm surge flooded roads on the low-lying barrier islands, as the high winds caused sporadic power outages. Local residents hunkered down along the beach paradise's commercial spine, Route 28, parallel to the Atlantic. They awoke to sunshine on Saturday, and quickly began pulling down plywood from storefront windows. "We were really ready to get blasted, but we got lucky," said Ray Coombes, a recreational sailor who summers in West Yarmouth on Cape Cod and removed his boat from the water Thursday in anticipation of the storm. Winds briefly reached as high as 80 kilometers (50 miles) per hour overnight and rains were heavy. Hyannis, home of the fabled Kennedy family compound, received 11 centimeters (4.5 inches) of rain. Weather watchers said Earl was still the most powerful storm to threaten the US Northeast since 1991, when Hurricane Bob killed six people. But as it rakes over eastern Canada, Earl left balmy weather in its wake on the US coast. On the beaches by Hyannis and Yarmouth, which were empty Friday, Labor Day holiday crowds were returning for some end-of-summer sand and sunshine. "The beach is perfect today," said Sharon Patterson, who was visiting Smuggler's Beach in South Yarmouth with her three children. Fugate, however, cautioned that the United States was still 87 days away from the end of hurricane season. "As FEMA resets from Hurricane Earl... we continue to keep an eye on the tropics." 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