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Topic: Too Close To Home! (7 pics)
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Pathfinder
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posted August 19, 2005 10:48 PM
 
1730 hrs today at Belwood Lake Sailing Club, Fergus ONA tornado ripped through the club this afternoon, snapping trees and masts like matchsticks ...
A venerable sailor surveys damage to his CL16.
Other boats were dumped off their trailers ...
... while others were blown off their dollies and skidded to rest 30-40 feet away.
Both floating docks flipped like a crocodile's tail and slapped to the water 100 feet from their mooring.
Many other boats were not in the path of the tornado, and were not damaged, or slightly affected as was Pathfinder's CL16 "Intermezzo", center, blue cover.
Damage will be better assessed Saturday morning at the skilled hands of sailors with chainsaws.
 [This message has been edited by Pathfinder (edited August 19, 2005).]
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Darcy
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posted August 19, 2005 10:56 PM
That's tragic Stan. Very sad to see so many beautiful boats wiped out. We could see the storm moving north of Toronto. Lake Ontario was boiling but we missed the brunt of it.
D'Arcy
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Eric
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posted August 20, 2005 11:34 AM
Sorry to learn about the damage to your club Stan. I hope you guys get back to sailing soon!It was indeed a vicious storm. I left work (Steeles & Keele) right at the height of the storm, in that area. You couldn't see 20ft ahead of you. Lightning and thunder was almost constant, with many direct strikes to buildings in the immediate area. I had to pull over under an overpass temporarily to wait it out. The east wind shook my truck quite a bit, and the water was flowing like a river down the whole road.
Just after I got home, I was recalled to work due to possible flooding. It took me an hour to drive the usual 5 minutes from the 400 to my workplace. The intersection at Jane and HWY7 was completely underwater. Abandoned cars, had water submersing their wheels. It was traffic kaos.
Anyway, storms like that, we can do without. Eric
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whited
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posted August 20, 2005 04:50 PM
Those storms are bad news.
Still lots of cleanup required in the forrests around here from Hurricane Juan 2 years ago.
A lot of the deadwood is now considered a fire hazard.
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Pathfinder
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posted August 20, 2005 09:25 PM
Saturday, 20 August.
By the time I arrived at the club at 0900 hrs, the cleanup effort was well underway...
... from skilled hands on the chainsaws ...
... to equipment operators (this is a farming area  ) ...
... to many who gathered and loaded debris, which was dumped at the firepit, to dry for use at campfire ...
... and still others who dismantled the docks into sections (like lego), repositioned, and reconnected them.
By 1700 hrs, the lawn in front of the clubhouse was cleaned up, raked, had the grass cut, with most boats replaced on trailers. One might hardly know what a disaster had occurred just 24 hours earlier.
Some owners have not yet seen the damage to their boats. We are all thankful that the damage was not a lot worse. Below, "Intermezzo" (CL16 far right), along with the others, cleaned up and straightened up, eagerly awaits the Commodore's Cup Regatta Sunday afternoon.
Many thanks to a company of champions for their amazing effort today - Belwood Lake Sailing Club!photos: Stan Elliotson
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whited
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posted August 21, 2005 11:20 AM
Those community type projects are great. Super way to spend a day.
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