In rural southeastern Ottawa and neighboring communities, many farms and homes are being worked on to clean up major damage caused by the devastating deer front on Saturday, and an investigation continues into any tornadoes.
Wyatt McWilliams was chopping wood on his horse and cattle farm in a rural community in Ottawa, Nawan, on Saturday when his wife went outside to tell him about a severe thunderstorm warning that rang on phones across the region just before the creek. pass.
By then, “it was terribly windy,” he told CBC Radio’s Ottawa Morning on Tuesday, and could hear thunder nearby.
A horse was standing right next to the barn. McWilliams decided to bring it in and was almost inside the barn door when “hell broke out,” he recalled.
The calves were housed in small temporary sheds on Travis McFadden’s farm in the southeastern rural Ottawa community of Navan on Tuesday after Saturday’s storm severely damaged his barn. (Stu Mills / CBC)
“All my life at work … disappeared in less than 5 minutes”
“It was raining and windy and it hit us. And we just entered the barn, then 10 seconds later everything just started hitting us with flying debris and everything. “
Their cement silo fell, the roof of the barn “disappeared completely” and four sheds were destroyed.
“It’s a lifetime of work, building sheds, barns and whatnot, it’s all gone in less than five minutes,” McWilliams said in a broken voice.
“Last fall we repaired all the roofs of all my sheds, all the barns and fucked everything up. I hired a few guys who repainted everything. I thought I would never have to touch anything again in my whole life. But I guess my warranty has expired because everything is gone. “
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A farmer from Navan is rocking after Saturday’s storm tore off the roof of his barn and destroyed several other buildings. We hear Wyatt McWilliams deal with damage from a storm in Derecho at a silo and barn on a farm in the southeastern Ottawa community of Navan on Monday. (Justin Tang / Canadian Press)
count. Catherine Keats of the Cumberland area – whose new name is Orleans South Navan – said the type of damage seen to McWilliams’ property had been widespread in Navan and Sarsfield.
“Agricultural property has been severely affected in these areas,” she told Ottawa Morning.
“It’s a lot of destruction everywhere you look.”
The cleanup continues in rural Ottawa after a severe storm caused widespread damage
This farm in a rural community in Ottawa, Nawan, was hit hard by Saturday’s storm with severe damage to barns, silos and sheds.
The state of emergency continues in Clarence-Rockland, Ont.
Saturday’s storm swept across much of Ontario and Quebec, including the entire city of Ottawa and neighboring Clarence-Rockland, Ont., Merging the city and rural communities in the south.
Clarence-Rockland declared a state of emergency on Saturday, which continues. Particularly affected communities there include Hammond, Bourgeois, Clarence Creek and St. Pascal-Beylon, according to Mayor Mario Zant.
Zant told Ottawa Morning that he believed the tornado had landed based on the “clearly cut” areas of damage he had seen.
“Obviously this has not been confirmed by Environment Canada, but when you are on stage, you can actually see the actual path it takes,” he said.
The Western University’s Northern Tornadoes Research Project continues to assess whether there was a tornado in the Ottawa area and near Toronto in Uxbridge, Ont., During the dere.
The roof of a hardware store lifted and crashed into neighboring houses and vehicles during Saturday’s storm in the Hammond community in Clarence-Rockland, Ont. (Justin Tang / Canadian Press)
“It is probably easier for us to count the homes that are not damaged than those that are damaged,” Clarence-Rockland Fire Chief Pierre Voazin told Canadian Press as he examined the remains in Hammond’s rural community on Monday.
The storm hit hard enough to cut some homes into twisted piles of wood, while broken power lines and broken telephone networks still blocked streets strewn with uprooted tree debris and rubble from destroyed buildings.
Hammond resident Mianu Gibord felt the devastation first hand when the house she bought brand new in December was destroyed by strong winds.
“I was sitting in the living room with my dog - he is a dog with post-traumatic stress disorder, he had to help me after my house was destroyed by fire – and I saw a red tin roof flying. I grabbed him by the neck and we ran downstairs, “Gibord said Monday as he watched what was left of her home.
The horses are moving in front of collapsed silos on a farm in Clarence Rockland on Monday. (Justin Tang / Canadian Press)
“All the windows were broken. I shouted “Help me” from the basement. My neighbor knocked on the door. The whole house was demolished. My car is still there.
Dominic Couture, a neighbor who ran to save Gibord, said that while his house was only slightly hit by a large dent in the side, the pickup truck he finished paying for four months ago was smashed.
“My truck was parked in front of the house and I think it flew in from behind,” he said. “This is a Dodge Ram and it’s down.”
A cow is drinking water on a farm where a major storm destroyed a barn in the Cheney community of Clarence Rockland on Monday. (Justin Tang / Canadian Press)
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