Authorities in Ottawa say a minimum of one twister has hit a suburb of Canada’s capital, damaging greater than 100 properties
An Ottawa Police officer walks previous particles after marking a house that has been inspected by emergency crews following a twister within the Ottawa, Ontario, suburb of Barrhaven on Thursday, July 13, 2023. (Sean Kilpatrick/The Canadian Press through AP)
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OTTAWA, Ontario — A minimum of one twister hit a suburb of Canada’s capital Thursday, damaging greater than 100 properties, authorities mentioned.
Kim Ayotte, normal supervisor of emergency and protecting providers for the town of Ottawa, mentioned 125 properties have been broken in Half Moon Bay, a neighborhood within the southern finish of the Barrhaven suburb.
He mentioned most injury concerned roofs being ripped, home windows damaged or injury inflicted by falling bushes.
“It’s quite a lot of injury from small injury to fairly substantial injury,” he mentioned.
He mentioned just one minor damage had been reported involving somebody whose foot was lower.
Monica Vaswani, a warning preparedness meteorologist at Surroundings Canada, mentioned a number of funnel clouds have been reported within the Ottawa space Thursday afternoon however just one twister had been confirmed as of midafternoon.
The group is about 14 miles south of Parliament Hill on Ottawa’s quickly rising south finish.
Laurie Gillespie mentioned her 82-year-old mom and her sister have been on the house when her sister observed a storm coming in and went exterior to drag in a chair so it wouldn’t blow away. The home windows in the lounge, toilet and bed room all blew in, strewing glass in every single place, whereas a lot of the roof was torn off, she mentioned.
“The curtains on the toilet window have been sucked proper out they usually ended up on the roof,” Gillespie mentioned.
Gillespie mentioned there was injury for a few two- to three-block radius round her mom’s house. Some roofs have been ripped aside and foam blocks used as insulation within the attics exploded.
Ottawa police requested individuals to keep away from the Barrhaven space and avoid downed energy traces.