As a wind storm ripped through the Lower Mainland and surrounding areas August 29, hundreds of thousands of residents were left without power and countless trees were damaged.
Surrey was hit particularly hard, and the Surrey Night Market is now closed for the season after it was torn apart by the heavy winds.
"Tents were ripped apart, our fence came down, lights, everything, everything was destroyed," said market director Gary Grewal. "There was massive destruction."
Staff were at the market site at the Cloverdale Fairgrounds August 31 to begin clean up, and Grewal guessed it would take a few days.
While damage estimates are nowhere near done, Grewal is sure it will be far more than $100,000.
Surrey Night Market in the "eye of the storm" pic.twitter.com/PMZPSx7mv6
— Satbir Singh Cheema (@CheemaSatbir) August 29, 2015"It will probably be way more than that. There's nothing left."
The market was scheduled to run to September 20, Grewal said.
"It's a big set back," Grewal said of the weekend's devastation, especially considering the market is only in its second year of operation.
While it is finished for 2015, the market isn't done for good, he stressed. A shorter season is planned for next year from June to mid-August.
The massive Canadian flag at the Barnes Wheaton dealership on 104th Avenue near 152nd Street was another casualty of the storm.
According to auto dealer Greg Barnes, the 50-by-80-foot flag costs $4,500 to replace.
Meanwhile, a woman was fighting for her life August 29 after being hit by a falling tree during the windstorm.
It happened near 148th Street and 100th afternoon shortly after noon.
Police say the woman, in her 40s, was walking with her daughter when she saw tree branches falling. She was apparently trying to warn others when she was struck.
Her daughter was able to jump out of the way.
The woman was taken to Royal Columbian Hospital and police were trying to identify her and notify family on the weekend.
As of the morning of August 31, police weren't available for comment on her condition.
