Weather - Wind Event in Central and Eastern Canada

[Northwood Mediaworks]

Well, summer decided to give us a good pop on the chin on her way out.... We've had 70mph gusts for the past 6 hours, and power's out for 170,000 in our province and just as many in Quebec. I had a deranged notion to take the spark up a few feet off the ground in all that... but sanity prevailed after we had a 50 foot tree come down in the driveway, luckily we moved the cars to an open area prior. It missed the house by about 15 feet. Also lucky we have a fail over generator that powers the whole house...


This event was caused by a cold front moving through. Tornadoes a few hours east of here in the Ottawa Gatineau aread... hope all are safe.

Saturday should be good flying weather... and chainsaw duty too.

Anyone else feel this storm?

 

[graywoulf]

Wow! Sounds like you got a taste of Florence in a way. Sorry to hear that you lost a tree and now have to clean it all up. I've been there and done that but it has been a long while. I did't know that you folks got that kind of weather up there. Glad to hear that there was no more damage than you had though. Are you still on generator power?

 

[Poletramp]

It was a bad one for sure , been picking up branches all morning and im still not finished . Lucky this time no trees down.

 

[LeafPeeper]

We got a pretty good blow here in the northeastern US as well (I'm about an hour from Montreal). I too spent yesterday afternoon with the chainsaw! Glad to hear you are ok.

LP