Water Spout sighting

Local residents help their neighbour clean up after they claim to have seen a water spout hit their shoreline. Photo by Chris Dawson.

A few local residents with homes along the shore of Lake Nipissing in North Bay got a real scare Friday afternoon.

Residents in the Premier Road area claim to have seen a large water spout on Lake Nipissing during Friday afternoon’s thunderstorm.

Helen Adams has a summer cottage on Birch, just off Premier Road. The Kitchener native spends her summers at her waterfront cottage on Lake Nipissing.

She says that when she saw the storm on the lake she was just too surprised to be frightened.

“I saw wind coming across the lake, spew coming across the waves about the width of this cottage and it hit and it just blew and that was it,” she said only hours after the storm had hit.

The good news is that there was very little damage left by this localized storm as it only knocked down a few trees in the neighbourhood before leaving with the storm winds.

Other local residents saw the strange phenomenon on Lake Nipissing and rushed to hide in the basement.