Thought some of these pics were worth sharing. The prairies has had some cruel weather this year, as well as other parts of the country. Four houses were leveled as this monster went though Elie, MB a few days ago, but there were no fatalities. Thank you God. This town is not too far from mine, and we know people close to the town.
These pics were forwarded to my husband from a friend.
better watch out
the evil snake
Whoops - wrong pic. Check out truck window.
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I'd be in the basement by now.
bit of a mess. This would be devastating enough, never mind having my house flattened
One of the lucky??? ones.
Still standing.
.......not still standing
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That's all I am able to post for now.
Echoes those pictures remind me how lightly we got off yesterday (and when the cells that spawned Elie went over us a day or two prior to her landing in that poor town).
A quote I always think about when those black clouds move in:
"Wind is the constant voice of the plains, sweeping unimpeded across the trackless expanse as vast as the ocean. Often the wind turns fierce, producing raging blizzards in winter and violent, hail-laden thunderstorms in summer. Twisters roar to life from the violent collision of air masses."
I always pray that they will land in a field (we do have enough wide open uninhabited spaces). The poor inhabitants of that town were certainly in my thoughts when we heard Elie had come to life.
Oh my - Mother Nature's fury indeed. I'm glad to know that no one died in this storm. Thanks for posting Brenda.
--Ginny
re the truck's windows I just remembered that when it was hailing here DH turned the car so the front windshield was facing the worst of it. The front windshield is made of tempered glass so is a bit stronger and isn't so dangerous when it shatters (the front windshield is also covered by insurance....since it is less likely to break ;).
Those pictures are awesome, the damage awful...
As well as losing their houses, many of the Elie farmers have terrible rubbish all over their fields. That has to be cleared off before harvest, in fact now, so that crops can recover. People walking all over the fields to pick up things, plus machinery to take off the large things that can't be carried by hand, just awful.
inanda
That is really scarry! I am just glad that I was no where near there. The porr folks who had to endure this must feel awful for the destruction but at the same time relieved they are ok.Thanks for sharing the photos
Bea
All I can say is that whoever took those photos is one brave soul. Forget the camera, I'd be hiding!
It's a relief that the towns folk are physically okay and I hope they have enough support to get back on their feet.
Erynne
I do appreciate the phos, but I'd be in the tub covered with a matteress.
Be safe you prairie folks.
Linda
My oh my, that is truly frightening! Both before and after.
Sandy
Just got here. Wow! is all I can say. Who took the pictures of the twister? I'm another who would be taking refuge. What a mammoth job to clean up from that and rebuild.
Aren't the side windows of your truck tempered as well? I had a stone thrown through the side window of my car by a passing truck - maybe 12 years ago and it sure was tempered. Broke into little pebbly pieces. Also covered by insurance, but they wanted an after market replacement which never did fit properly and the headaches from not putting a proper Audi window in at the beginning went on for several months until they finally did.
Ann
The photos were taken by local residents. Cleanup and recovery efforts were incredible.
A young man from the colony has some excellent footage that shows the houses and a van going up into the funnel and disintigrating as they were being thrown back out. The kind of footage you would hope to see in a good documentary or movie. He offered it to the TV news people, but they said no, they had enough tornado stuff, the story was old. Far better than anything they showed at the time, though.
