NU Online News Service, Sept. 19, 12:06 p.m. EDT
Maria made landfall on Newfoundland's Avalon Peninsula as a "minimal Category 1 hurricane" late last week and quickly became an extratropical storm, according to AIR Worldwide.
The catastrophe modeler says Maria's path took it across a number of small towns along the Avalon Peninsula's coast. "The inland portion of the peninsula, which is about 40 miles wide at its widest, is a wilderness preserve," AIR says, "St. John's lies at the northern end of the peninsula and was subjected to the storm's diminishing winds."
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