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Came through the storm on the way home from Ottawa to home without power. We are supposed to have power by 8 this evening. A strong wind twisted our garden shed partly off its platform. I had hundreds of pounds of spruce logs in one back corner so that corner only moved a couple of cm. The opposite corner moved over 30 cm so the shed twisted. Only that side bent. Without the logs, it might have blown against the trees behind it. The tulip festival was a lot of fun. Sitting under an overpass on 417 during the worst of the storm was not.
 
Here's CBC's article. That system was intense. Two killed by falling trees. Power out all over the place. Winds in K-W were logged at 130+ km/h, speeds you normally only get in a hurricane or tornado. The list in the article of affected locations is kind of stupid, though. Even though the picture right above the list it is from Kitchener, they don't list either Kitchener or London. They do say "includes" which implies not comprehensive but to leave off the city mentioned right above seems odd.


And it looks like round two is approaching London from the view out my window, though the forecast at the moment is for it to just be rain.

EDIT: Just eyeballed the list again. Toronto is listed twice. Do they not have editors anymore?
 
Brushed by here as just a regular old storm. Did get kinda dark for a while. I wonder at someone choosing to walk in a bad thunderstorm (the Brampton woman who was killed by a falling tree), although I guess one does get caught unaware.

OTOH, those alerts were rather annoying this afternoon, making a bit of a mess of a couple of nice bits of Lucia Di Lamermoor... Donizetti is a favorite composer of mine.
 
Delightful Life said:
Nature is aweful :eek: :mad: :whistle: :love: o_O
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Well put. One thing we pantheists understand and bow to is that nature is not necessarily favorably disposed towards us as individual beings at all times but that many of nature's less friendly aspects are, in fact, necessary for the existence and longterm survival of life as a whole (e.g. if Earth was tectonically dead like Mars, we would have no more quakes or volcanoes but would probably also be equally bereft of life).
 
Germany also had bad storms with tornados- I never heard of tornados in Germany before. Politicians clearly commented that Germans need to get used to worsening weather as a clear sign of climate change.
 
Nature is awful ... no two ways about it to make it diabolical? Only for the one way crew that can't see both side of the situation ...

Without the dissonance might we get too easy?

Thence cognitive therapy for those suffering dense and thick-skinned conditions ... one of the MB factors having been lost ... thus overbalancing its counterpart ... yet if one does not believe in personality constructs ... that too goes down the tubes ...

Taking that one way would miss the abstract? Absolutely and thus out-of-here ... the absolute accept nothing beyond ... they don't go well with the edge or fringe ... dis emanation ... emended what?
 
Good morning! Everyone OK? Lots of weather events happened around this part of the world yesterday, hope everyone is safe. The coffee cart is up, ready to serve, as we gather and converse and support. Help yourself.

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Redbaron said:
Good morning! Everyone OK? Lots of weather events happened around this part of the world yesterday, hope everyone is safe. The coffee cart is up, ready to serve, as we gather and converse and support. Help yourself.

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Thus we abstract when we can't believe what's occurred ... with mortal assistance as we cannot walk lightly ... a hint from beyond as alien illumination! And light energy is still greatly unknown ...
 
Mrs.Anteater said:
also had bad storms with tornados- I never heard of tornados in Germany before.
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Wow. My understanding has always been that they are rare in Europe in general.

I am hearing our storm labelled as a derecho. That's a term I first learned five or six years ago when Little M was obsessed with weather and meteorology for a while.

www.google.com

What is a derecho, and why is it so destructive?

In the right conditions, walls of wind made up of several thunderstorms can blow across hundreds of miles in just hours.
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I put the shed back in place this morning after emptying it. Discovered the snowblower and garden tools to in the front corner jammed against the logs and prevented the front part of the shed from moving farther than it did. It has a few dents and bends, but is more or by less functional with heavy logs now in every corner. We might have power back by 4 this afternoon.

Nature is wonderfully wild. Even though a few people were killed, the storm hit millions of people and more people probably died in highway accidents. We have a plastic wheelbarrow about fifty feet from the shed and close to the line of travel that wind must have taken and it was not moved. Sitting relatively safely at the side of the highway while the winds shook the car was a cool adrenalin experience.
 
As of this morning, we still 2500 without power in London. Haven't heard yet if they are back up. My son (Ottawa just West of Downtown) said they were fine.
 
We are using the generator in our motorhome to power our freezer. Without power on an acreage, we will be showering in the motorhome. We are glad we had it almost ready for camping with a full fuel tank and a full propane tank. Hydro One has a major power line outage between Ottawa and here that seems to be affecting half of Hawkesbury and all of adjacent areas like ours. We are hoping we will have power by tomorrow.
 
Just checked Hydro One's website. Now they expect we will have power restored by 4:00 pm Tuesday. Some towers in the major lineà that serves this area were toppled over.
 
Glad none of you had too much damage. The weather here has been nice, a bit warmer than expected. Still a little cool but comfortable enough for getting things done.
 
Took a walk around the area this evening. Saw two limbs down. The biggest was already cut up for firewood but I could see from the size of the scar on the tree and the thickness of some of the sections that it was a big one. Would not want to have been in the way when it came down. The other wasn't too big and was just laying on boulevard about a block from my place.
 
We might end up with a bit of a storm here, not sure. It felt like a storm was coming in and started to drizzle, but nothing is forecasted, maybe just the cold air moving in for the night.
Either way I am done pissing off the bees - my garden beds are so full of them this year. Solitary ones but still not fun to have a bunch of them buzzing around me all at once. Seems to be a good year for them as others mentioned them too, although no one else actually mentioned their garden. They don't like me watering, making rows, etc.
Wind picked up enough that some of my tomatoes fell over before I got them all inside.
Still for this time of year, can't complain much.
 
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