Houses washed into the sea and power knocked out as Storm Fiona lashes Canada

An avenue of trees lies wrecked in Halifax, Nova Scotia, as Storm Fiona hits Canada (Darren Calabrese /The Canadian Press via AP)

Storm Fiona washed houses into the sea, tore the roofs off others and knocked out power to the vast majority of two Canadian provinces on Saturday as it made landfall as a big, powerful post-tropical cyclone.

Fiona transformed from a hurricane into a post-tropical storm late on Friday, but it still had hurricane-strength winds and brought drenching rains and huge waves. There was no confirmation of fatalities or injures.