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Mini-storm in Ettyville topples trees in homeowner’s front yard
G REGG C HAMBERLAIN gregg.chamberlain@eap.on.ca
A third pine tree had grown up bifur c ated into two separate trun k s growing out of a single m ain root-trun k . The one trun k on the road-side of the tree snapped off during the stor m and the wind pushed it a c ross the yard and dropped it, stand- ing straight up, against another pine tree. In the for k above that tree, whi c h es c aped da m age, the wind dropped the re m ains of part of a gazebo roof it tore off fro m another neighbouring yard. The Di x ons k now that they are lu ck y that the wind didn’t blow any one of the three trees onto their house. As of Monday, they were still waiting for their insuran c e agent to c o m e out to survey the da m age as part of their c lai m s report so they c ould begin the wor k of c leaning up the stor m debris. Further along Ettyville Road there are other signs of the stor m ’s passing. A s m all trees along the roadside had their trun k s snapped off half- way up or near the base. And the sheet- m etal roof of an old storage shed on one property now has several gaping holes where the wind tore off se c tions of the roof. Further away over in nearby P endleton, signs of stor m da m age left behind are li m ited to a c ouple of bro k en tree trun k s by the roadside and so m e bran c hes blown down. In neighbour- ing Curran and parts of rural P lantagenet, last Friday’s stor m a m ounted to just a brief shower followed so m e ru m bles of thunder. The Di x ons said they’d heard no reports that anyone in their area was hurt during the stor m . An Environ m ent Canada offi c ial told the Vision during a phone interview that what residents along Ettyville Road m ay have e x perien c ed was a “downburst”, a k ind of m ini-stor m featuring high, al m ost tornado-li k e winds of between 90 to 100 k ilo m etres an hour or m ore but with no tell-tale funnel c loud.
Ettyville | It see m ed like a tornado had whirled in to wreak havoc on the Dixon ho m e last Fri- day night. All of Eastern O ntario and Western Québe c were under a S tor m Wat c h warning for the May 2 5 wee k end. For so m e c o mm unities, the warn- ing a m ounted to little m ore than dar k c loudy s k ies and a brief shower of rain but a few of the households li k e the Di x ons along Ettyville Road in The N ation Muni c ipality, it was a different story. “We c ouldn’t shut the windows fast enough,” Dytha Di x on said during an interview the follow- ing Monday. “We had a flood c o m ing in.” Marble-sized hailstones pun c hed holes through all the s c reens c overing the windows on one side of the house. The windows the m - selves es c aped da m age be c ause the wire- m esh s c reens slowed down the larger hailstones that got through just enough so they spattered to bits on i m pa c t. “We c ouldn’t see anything outside,” Di x on said. “It was all white. It was s c ary.” The retired c ouple c ould hear the thunder boo m ing overhead and the hail pounding on their roof. The c o m bined c a c ophony c overed the e x plosive c ra ck ing of tree trun k s as several 50-year-old pines in their front and side yards snapped in two. “ O ur k ids planted those trees,” Di x on said. “ O ne was our ni c e shade tree.” Two of the three-storey-tall trees now lie flat on the ground. The shade tree c rushed the lawn c hairs and table where the Di x ons would sit out- side and rela x during the day and evening. O ne of the other trees s m as k ed down on the fen c e dividing their yard fro m a neighbour’s and also stripped all the li m bs fro m a bir c h tree growing on the other side of the fen c e.
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