tornado touches down in ottawa and gatineau
Just talked to Fred on the phone. He said the Ops session is still on. It missed him a Bill Scobie, who lives in Gatineau, but a lot of homes were damaged. Phone works but the powers out.
Ken Brunt said:
tornado touches down in ottawa and gatineau
Just talked to Fred on the phone. He said the Ops session is still on. It missed him a Bill Scobie, who lives in Gatineau, but a lot of homes were damaged. Phone works but the powers out.
Yikes!
Canada isn’t the first place which comes to mind for tornadoes.
However…
“This may serve as a bit of a surprise, but Canada is actually number two behind the United States for total annual frequency of tornadoes, with a whopping 5 percent of the globe’s total! While not intuitive at first, given Canada is often associated with a cold and rural landscape, it actually experiences a fairly robust tornado season from middle to late summer — typically mid-June through the month of July and into August.”
https://www.ustornadoes.com/2013/07/25/from-domestic-to-international-tornadoes-around-the-world/
Despite the lack of power we did operate at Fred’s everyone is ok. Apparently two tornados touched down one a category 4. Merivale Transformer station took a direct hit not far from Fred’s. Luckily no loss of life. Power is back on in my area again, haven’t talked to Fred this morning to see if he has power.
Fred said he wasn’t sure how many would show up. Glad to hear everyone’s OK.
Those telephone poles look just like the road to North Bay on our Invasion side-trip many moons ago. I don’t remember the name of the town we were stopped in when it was pretty obvious from the look of sky that we should not be outdoors. I do remember Ric yelling to Fred that it’s time to go, NOW!!!
Glad everyone is OK. Surviving these storms, even if you are not directly effected with damage, seems to be something we are all experiencing lately.
Power came back on at around 20:20 Sunday evening. Considering one Tornado touched down, about a mile South of us, we have had no damage, and we had a good turnout of people for the operations on Saturday morning.
Thanks for caring…
Fred Mills
Mother Nature can sure be a fickled “&itch”. Glad to see you guys are okay.
Holy carp! Sure glad you’re ok, and no lives were lost.