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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 bifurcated into two separate trunks growing out of a single main root-trunk.The one trunk on the road-side of the tree snapped off during the storm and the wind pushed it across the yard and dropped it, stand- ing straight up, against another pine tree. In the fork above that tree, which escaped damage, the wind dropped the remains of part of a gazebo roof it tore off from another neighbouring yard. The Dixons know that they are lucky that the wind didn’t blow any one of the three trees onto their house. As of Monday, they were still waiting for their insurance agent to come out to survey the damage as part of their claims report so they could begin the work of cleaning up the storm debris. Further along Ettyville Road there are other signs of the storm’s passing. A small trees along the roadside had their trunks snapped off half- way up or near the base. And the sheet-metal roof of an old storage shed on one property now has several gaping holes where the wind tore off sections of the roof. Further away over in nearby Pendleton, signs of storm damage left behind are limited to a couple of broken tree trunks by the roadside and some branches blown down. In neighbour- ing Curran and parts of rural Plantagenet, last Friday’s storm amounted to just a brief shower followed some rumbles of thunder. The Dixons said they’d heard no reports that anyone in their area was hurt during the storm. An Environment Canada official told the Vision during a phone interview that what residents along Ettyville Road may have experienced was a “downburst”, a kind of mini-storm featuring high, almost tornado-like winds of between 90 to 100 kilometres an hour or more but with no tell-tale funnel cloud.
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 Ontario and Western Québec were under a Storm Watch warning for the May 25 weekend. For some communities, the warn- ing amounted to little more than dark cloudy skies and a brief shower of rain but a few of the households like the Dixons along Ettyville Road in The Nation Municipality, it was a different story. “We couldn’t shut the windows fast enough,” Dytha Dixon said during an interview the follow- ing Monday.“We had a flood coming in.” Marble-sized hailstones punched holes through all the screens covering the windows on one side of the house. The windows them- selves escaped damage because the wire-mesh screens slowed down the larger hailstones that got through just enough so they spattered to bits on impact. “We couldn’t see anything outside,”Dixon said. “It was all white. It was scary.” The retired couple could hear the thunder booming overhead and the hail pounding on their roof. The combined cacophony covered the explosive cracking of tree trunks as several 50-year-old pines in their front and side yards snapped in two. “Our kids planted those trees,”Dixon said.“One was our nice shade tree.” Two of the three-storey-tall trees now lie flat on the ground. The shade tree crushed the lawn chairs and table where the Dixons would sit out- side and relax during the day and evening. One of the other trees smasked down on the fence dividing their yard from a neighbour’s and also stripped all the limbs from a birch tree growing on the other side of the fence.
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