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Huron
East man
charged
for
impaired
driving
A 36 -year-old Huron
East man has been
charged with driving a
motor vehicle with
more than 80 mg. of
alcohol in his blood
after Huron OPP were
tipped off - by a
concerned citizen.
On May 16, at
approximately 2 a.m.,
Huron OPP received a
call about a possible
impaired driver
driving a Pontiac on
Hydro Line Road.
Patrolling officers
stopped the vehicle
and found the driver
had been drinking and
failed a roadside test.
Two breath samples
from the driver were
found to have twice the
legal limit of 80 mg. of
alcohol.
The driver is
scheduled to attend
court on July 16.
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Susan Hundertmark photo
Friends and neighbours gathered to help clean up the debris after the storage shed on the farm of Orville and Lila Storey was
destroyed by a tornado Tuesday evening.
Two funnel clouds seen near Winthrop
as storm wreaks havoc in McKillop
Susan Hundertmark
At the same time Sherry McCall and
her family were watching two funnel
clouds approaching the Winthrop -area
farm of her parents, Orville and Lila
Storey, meteorologist Geoff Coulson
was watching "strong rotation
signatures" near Winthrop on the
radar.
"We did have at least one touch down
near Winthrop. It was confirmed as an
F1 on the Fujita scale, which is winds
between 120 and 180 km/h," says the
Environment Canada warning
preparedness meteorologist.
Coulson says a damage team sent
from Environment Canada and the
University of Western Ontario to the
area after last Tuesday evening's storm
found plenty of evidence of a tornado.
While the exact path and number of
funnel clouds haven't been determined,
Coulson says there was wind damage
from Winthrop through Brodhagen to
Bornholm and Monkton.
"We're not sure if it all links up," he
says.
The worst of the damage occurred
between 6:15 and 6:30 p.m. Tuesday
with flattened barns, toppled silos,
downed trees and debris sprayed at a
wide angle throughout country fields.
Luckily, no one was hurt and no one
lost their home during the storm.
"There was very selective damage in
a narrow path, which is very tornadic
in nature," says Coulson.
At the Storey farm, McCall says she
watched two tornadoes forming across
the road to the west as she, her
husband Murray, her parents, her
daughter Shauna and two
grandchildren were standing outside on
the porch.
"They were planting beans here and
we were wondering if it was going to
rain," says McCall.
"There was no thunder and lightning
but all of a sudden a wind came up and
we couldn't see anything. It was like
going through a car wash - all wind and
water and dirt. When the tree hit the
house, we thought we should get to the
basement," she says.
The tornado took down the storage
shed, which McCall says, was used by
many neighbours to store everything
from seadoos to campers to farm
machinery.
A friend, Bob Malone, was in a
tractor planting beans in the field near
the Storey house when the storm hit.
The first thing he noticed was dirt
blowing across alp road before he
noticed a curtain o rain doming his
way.
"You'd think you were in the Sahara
in a sand storm," he says.
He decided to wait out the weather in
the tractor until he was sitting in what
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