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昨夜春风，造成很多伤害．
想问下， 房屋保险公司是否为ＯＷＮＥＲ赔偿？
Severe storm roars through capital
OTTAWA — Ottawa’s blissful hot and sunny day turned ugly in only a few minutes Saturday night as a severe thunder storm roared through the region around 7 p.m., bringing wind gusts of 100 km/h, which tore roofs off of buildings, knocked over hydro lines and yanked massive trees right out of the ground.
“It’s kept us hopping,” said Ottawa Fire District Chief Lyle Fraser, who added that firefighters were swamped with calls between 7 p.m. and 8:30 p.m.
“A couple of roofs torn off, all kinds of power lines down, trees on fire,” he said, adding that the subsequent power outages also caused a spike in other routine calls such as alarm re-sets and people stuck in elevators.
The Nepean and Brittania areas of the city appeared to be hardest hit by the storm.
Fraser said the strong winds blew the roofs off of a four-storey apartment building on Brittania Road and a duplex on Morisset Ave.
David Manditch, 40, whose Chatelain Avenue home in the Nepean area is only a few streets north of Morisset, said he saw the sky turn black before he saw what he believes was a tornado
“I’ve never seen anything like it,” he said Saturday night, well after the storm had passed.
Manditch said he noticed the sky change colour and he stepped outside to get a better look, and that’s when he saw a funnel of clouds less than two kilometres to the south.
“I’ve never seen clouds move so fast,” he said.
Manditch told his wife to quickly close all the windows in the house and he gathered his dogs before heading to the basement for protection.
“I was scared,” he said, but added that it was all over just as quick as it started.
Though the worst of the storm passed through in a matter of minutes, a massive, white cedar tree was ripped right out of the ground — roots and all — from Manditch’s neighbour’s yard.
“If it was a twister — and I think it was — I’m pretty sure it touched down back here just for a second,” Manditch said, standing next to the overturned tree.
Similarly downed trees and power lines were visible throughout the neighbourhood — on LePage Ave., Chatelain Ave. and Cavan St.
Remarkably, given the extensive damage, Ottawa fire and paramedics reported no injuries related to the storm.
Environment Canada issued a severe thunder storm warning for the Ottawa area around 7 p.m., but a meteriorologist for the weather agency said it was the strong winds that did most of the damage.
“Basically we had a squall line roaring through the Ottawa-Gatineau area at about 100 km/h,” said Arnold Ashton, who specializes in severe weather.
Ashton said “it’s not impossible,” that Manditch saw a tornado during the storm, but Environment Canada had not confirmed any tornados in the area.
“But the main issue is the strong core of wind,” he said, describing most of the storm’s wind as “straight-line, as opposed to rotational,” as in a tornado.
Ashton said the storm lasted about 90 minutes in the Ottawa area, doing most of the damage between 7 p.m. and 8:30 p.m.
About 10,000 Hydro Ottawa customers — mainly in the Orléans and Rockcliffe areas — were without power for several hours Saturday night due to downed power lines and hydro poles.
Hydro One reported 40,000 outages across the province, with only a few hundred in the areas around Ottawa, mostly in Arnprior.
Several traffic lights and street lights were out throughout the city and police periodically closed various roads throughout the city due to downed trees and power lines.
想问下， 房屋保险公司是否为ＯＷＮＥＲ赔偿？
Severe storm roars through capital
OTTAWA — Ottawa’s blissful hot and sunny day turned ugly in only a few minutes Saturday night as a severe thunder storm roared through the region around 7 p.m., bringing wind gusts of 100 km/h, which tore roofs off of buildings, knocked over hydro lines and yanked massive trees right out of the ground.
“It’s kept us hopping,” said Ottawa Fire District Chief Lyle Fraser, who added that firefighters were swamped with calls between 7 p.m. and 8:30 p.m.
“A couple of roofs torn off, all kinds of power lines down, trees on fire,” he said, adding that the subsequent power outages also caused a spike in other routine calls such as alarm re-sets and people stuck in elevators.
The Nepean and Brittania areas of the city appeared to be hardest hit by the storm.
Fraser said the strong winds blew the roofs off of a four-storey apartment building on Brittania Road and a duplex on Morisset Ave.
David Manditch, 40, whose Chatelain Avenue home in the Nepean area is only a few streets north of Morisset, said he saw the sky turn black before he saw what he believes was a tornado
“I’ve never seen anything like it,” he said Saturday night, well after the storm had passed.
Manditch said he noticed the sky change colour and he stepped outside to get a better look, and that’s when he saw a funnel of clouds less than two kilometres to the south.
“I’ve never seen clouds move so fast,” he said.
Manditch told his wife to quickly close all the windows in the house and he gathered his dogs before heading to the basement for protection.
“I was scared,” he said, but added that it was all over just as quick as it started.
Though the worst of the storm passed through in a matter of minutes, a massive, white cedar tree was ripped right out of the ground — roots and all — from Manditch’s neighbour’s yard.
“If it was a twister — and I think it was — I’m pretty sure it touched down back here just for a second,” Manditch said, standing next to the overturned tree.
Similarly downed trees and power lines were visible throughout the neighbourhood — on LePage Ave., Chatelain Ave. and Cavan St.
Remarkably, given the extensive damage, Ottawa fire and paramedics reported no injuries related to the storm.
Environment Canada issued a severe thunder storm warning for the Ottawa area around 7 p.m., but a meteriorologist for the weather agency said it was the strong winds that did most of the damage.
“Basically we had a squall line roaring through the Ottawa-Gatineau area at about 100 km/h,” said Arnold Ashton, who specializes in severe weather.
Ashton said “it’s not impossible,” that Manditch saw a tornado during the storm, but Environment Canada had not confirmed any tornados in the area.
“But the main issue is the strong core of wind,” he said, describing most of the storm’s wind as “straight-line, as opposed to rotational,” as in a tornado.
Ashton said the storm lasted about 90 minutes in the Ottawa area, doing most of the damage between 7 p.m. and 8:30 p.m.
About 10,000 Hydro Ottawa customers — mainly in the Orléans and Rockcliffe areas — were without power for several hours Saturday night due to downed power lines and hydro poles.
Hydro One reported 40,000 outages across the province, with only a few hundred in the areas around Ottawa, mostly in Arnprior.
Several traffic lights and street lights were out throughout the city and police periodically closed various roads throughout the city due to downed trees and power lines.
