As some of you know, although I live in Windsor, I am from the Town of Durham. Today a tornado touched down in my hometown behind my sisters house, but missed, cut through my Uncle's property and missed the house, went through my other sister's backyard and just missed their house and business. Went through the South of town and destroyed a bunch of businesses... killed at least one person. Went to the East end of town, damaged more houses and then cut through the community campground less than a kilometer from my parents house.
It seems tornadic activity, as the meteorologists like to refer to it, was also in some other OJHL centres around this same period.
Our forum contributors in Milton and Newmarket, I also hope, are ok.
This humid weather is certain to spawn some significant weather events. It did so and continues to do so at this time. Our friends in the Atlantic provinces are hunkering down for Hurricane Bill's wrath.
We all are with those who are not so fortunate as the rest of us.
Sadly, an 11-year-old boy was lost in our conservation area campground yesterday.
Yes... it seems that this storm had an eye for OPJHL team centres of past and present yesterday. Even Collingwood had a near-miss at Thornbury. Durham made national news back in 1997 (when the Huskies were in the Metro) due to a flood that resulted in the national guard being called in and a mass-evacuation.
Like our Dept. Police Chief Robbie Thompson said on the news this morning on CBC (paraphrasing)... Just like the floods that have hit us in the past, we'll come together and work through this like we always have.
A clip of the Durham tornado filmed from the Beer Store, filmed by a girl I went to school with: imglink:www.cbc.ca/clips/mov/josie.mov
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