Canada: 'Total chaos' as massive summer storm batters Calgary
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Canada: 'Total chaos' as massive summer storm batters Calgary
By Deborah Tetley, Calgary Herald July 28, 2010 Comments (1)
CALGARY - Trees uprooted from the ground came crashing down, manhole covers sprung up into the streets triggering flash floods, and dime-sized hail hammered parts of the city Monday night in a sudden summer storm.
Streets turned into ponds, basements flooded, there were reports of funnel clouds and an airline pilot said he saw a tornado about 15 kilometres southeast of the airport, prompting a tornado warning from Environment Canada just after 8 p.m. for a handful of communities south of the city.
The weather system sent the fire department scrambling throughout the southwest corner of the city responding to flooding in intersections and basements. Firefighters used chainsaws to remove trees, toppled over in the wind onto homes and yards.
Evergreen, Woodbine, Midnapore, Sundance and Braeside were among the hardest-hit areas, fire department officials said.
"It was total chaos out there for a while," said battalion chief Rob Horsburgh. "A couple of trees came down and there's lots of branches in the streets. Backed-up sewers caused flash floods and there were multiple basements flooded."
A visitor to Calgary said one minute the skies were cloudy over Midnapore, and the next, he thought a tornado was about to touch down.
"The storm broke out and suddenly it was winter outside," said Remi Poirier, who is visiting from New Brunswick and said he's never experienced a fabled Alberta summer storm. "It was just unreal to see. The hail came down, white, like sand or salt, and it was pounding at the door. There was branches falling off the trees and now there's branches all over the streets."
Yvonne Wallace, a meteorologist with Environment Canada said hot temperatures, coupled with high humidity, proximity to both the mountains and prairies, and strong winds are the "ideal recipe" for such storms.
"Everything we love about living (in the Calgary area) is also what leads to these summer storms that pop up," said Wallace.
There was no evidence a tornado touched down, she added.
Read more: http://www.vancouversun.com/news/Total+chaos+summer+storm+batters+Calgary/3328580/story.html#ixzz0uxnYp8ST
Canada: 'Total chaos' as massive summer storm batters Calgary
By Deborah Tetley, Calgary Herald July 28, 2010 Comments (1)
CALGARY - Trees uprooted from the ground came crashing down, manhole covers sprung up into the streets triggering flash floods, and dime-sized hail hammered parts of the city Monday night in a sudden summer storm.
Streets turned into ponds, basements flooded, there were reports of funnel clouds and an airline pilot said he saw a tornado about 15 kilometres southeast of the airport, prompting a tornado warning from Environment Canada just after 8 p.m. for a handful of communities south of the city.
The weather system sent the fire department scrambling throughout the southwest corner of the city responding to flooding in intersections and basements. Firefighters used chainsaws to remove trees, toppled over in the wind onto homes and yards.
Evergreen, Woodbine, Midnapore, Sundance and Braeside were among the hardest-hit areas, fire department officials said.
"It was total chaos out there for a while," said battalion chief Rob Horsburgh. "A couple of trees came down and there's lots of branches in the streets. Backed-up sewers caused flash floods and there were multiple basements flooded."
A visitor to Calgary said one minute the skies were cloudy over Midnapore, and the next, he thought a tornado was about to touch down.
"The storm broke out and suddenly it was winter outside," said Remi Poirier, who is visiting from New Brunswick and said he's never experienced a fabled Alberta summer storm. "It was just unreal to see. The hail came down, white, like sand or salt, and it was pounding at the door. There was branches falling off the trees and now there's branches all over the streets."
Yvonne Wallace, a meteorologist with Environment Canada said hot temperatures, coupled with high humidity, proximity to both the mountains and prairies, and strong winds are the "ideal recipe" for such storms.
"Everything we love about living (in the Calgary area) is also what leads to these summer storms that pop up," said Wallace.
There was no evidence a tornado touched down, she added.
Read more: http://www.vancouversun.com/news/Total+chaos+summer+storm+batters+Calgary/3328580/story.html#ixzz0uxnYp8ST
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