More than two weeks after Hurricane Dorian slammed into Nova Scotia at the end ofa slow-moving and destructive journeythrough the Atlantic, the Canadian province is still digging out from a tower crane collapse in downtown Halifax and other damage caused by the powerful storm.
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省级官员于9月23日宣布招聘港口工程顾问，BMR Structural Engineeringand R&D Crane Operator Ltd, and their subcontractors to secure and remove the heavily damaged crane that fell on and over a nearby private residential tower under construction, assess the collapse cause, and repair building damage.
Few details have been released on removal plans, but the firms will be indemnified by the government for their work, after the province on Sept. 18称为“局部紧急状态”to take over and accelerate the takedown, assuming liability. The project developer claimed he had difficulty in gaining insurance coverage.
拆除的起重机悬挂在多层住宅塔上并在街上，涉及一个多阶段的过程，至少可以在9月完成。
Labour Minister Labi Kousoulis told Canadian media that the top part of the crane resting on the building weighs 67,000 lb.
9月14日周末开始的拆除过程开始了，工作人员将柱子放置并支撑建筑物的每个楼层，以加强其结构完整性，因为起重机被拆除。
有了这项成就，上周的工作人员开始将起重机固定在下面的半层高层上，以防止在部分中拆除时进一步崩溃。
新斯科舍省应急管理部长查克·波特（Chuck Porter）表示，尚未发布损害成本估算。
Nearby residents and business owners remain evacuated from the area.
Porter indicated other cranes in Halifax’s booming construction market managed to ride out the storm in tact.
虽然技术在到达新斯科舍省的岩石海岸时就被归类为热带气旋，但多利安的一些风量达到100英里 /小时，或相当于2类飓风。
波特说：“风一直在吹。”“它只是覆盖了整个省。这是您在猫2中受到的伤害。这是一场大风暴。”
波特说，总的来说，自2003年胡安飓风肆虐以来，这场风暴是最重的袭击新斯科舍省。
While Juan packed a stronger but narrower punch, Dorian swept across the region more broadly, knocking out power to 400,000 customers, or 80% of the total.
但是，波特说，几乎所有电力都在一个半星期后恢复，来自加拿大各地的电力公司的1300多名工人在暴风雨到达之前的佛罗里达州，距离佛罗里达州的佛罗里达州。
“There was just widespread assistance coming in,” Porter said, aided by hundreds of Canadian armed forces who restored infrastructure.
The storm washed out roads and damaged wharves and breakwaters, but the port of Halifax escaped serious damage, Porter said.
