A house at Sunset Point is split in half after a tree crashed through it Monday evening. Winds of up to 190km per hour knocked out power to over 170,000 homes throughout Central and Northern Ontario, and parts of Western Quebec.
A house at Sunset Point is split in half after a tree crashed through it Monday evening.Winds of up to 190km per hour knocked out power to over 170,000 homes throughout Central and Northern Ontario, and parts of Western Quebec.
Although no Tornadoes have been confirmed, North Bay residents say they saw funnel clouds form over the lake towards Main Street and Gormanville Road.
“It looked like it was over the lake, basically running towards me,” Ray Seguin, owner of Lucky 13 on McKeown Ave. said
“Then we just ran inside, because it was getting really bad.”
Seguin said he saw the funnel cloud after the power went out around 6pm, but is unsure if the funnel touched the ground.
Meanwhile, East on McKeown Ave., mobile signs quickly came uprooted at McKeown Plaza and flew across the street, with motorists narrowly avoiding injury.
“We were driving down McKeown when a sign from the plaza flew off and hit the passenger side of my truck,” Robert Goodwin said.
“It scared the living daylights out of me, I couldn’t move out of the way because of the other traffic.”
Goodwin Explained the rain was so thick he couldn’t see more than ten feet in front of him. He said first the spikes that were holding the mobile sign into the ground, hit his truck, then the actual sign came at him.
“It was like it was in slow motion,” Goodwin said.
“My dad was screaming for me to get down when he saw it coming” Alyssa Goodwin, who was in the truck with her father, said.
“Then it hit us, I was crying.”
Louise Beauvois, a Tim Horton’s employee on McKeown, watched her car get destroyed.
“We were standing in the store and watched the sign fly by and hit my car,” Beauvois said.
“All I could say is, that’s my car!”
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