HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Goderich Signal-Star, 1973-10-18, Page 15THURSDAY ,"OCTOBER 1 8, 197 3
Telephone Company, lineman works on damaged
• lines at Wellington and Coley Streets Monday
where high winds uprooted a tree dumping onto the
,disrupting service through the area. A spokesman for
hone company said damage to phone lines was
light, with only two or three knocked down within the
municipality and Interruption of service confined to small,
Isolated areas. Other utility lines suffered from the falling
trees and limbs as well and kept Public Utility linemen at
work until 3:00 a.m. Sunday. (staff photo)
towers throughout Goderich tended to suffer the
when winds, gusting to 51 miles per hour, slammed °In
s Huron Saturday evening. This tower and aerial was
e cement base and dumped across the roof of this
home occupied by Harry Arthur at 189 McDonald Street.
Fallen tree limbs also took doeveral power service wires
leading to homes damaging the areas where power service
went into -the houses. (staff photo)
High winds on Saturday
evening, which the Department
of the Environment weather
station at Sky Harbor report
gusted to 51 miles per hour,
swept through Goderich but left
minimal damage. _
t;oderich - Public Utilities
linemen were called out about
10oo p.m. Saturday when a
lint, was• torn from a tree
se�erurg power lines from the
er distribution station
to •;,_ted on the east end of town
ne;or the railway line.
The downed lines resulted in
a power blackout to the eastern
portion of town, which lasted,
about one hour while the
P l_'.('. crews cleared the fallen
tr, limb and repaired the •
:;u,,shed. lines. .
While the P.U.C. crew was
eni;rged with the east half
bl,t,'kuu t, a 40 foot tree was
to, n down at the corner of Wid-
der And Caley Streets pulling
mere_ power lines to the ground
and interrupting service to
hwnres in that area.
Hill McNaughton, 139 Wid-
der Street, Alvin Gilders, 187
C'.,lev Street and Mr. Gilder's
sin -in-law Ken Moffat of
T,,r-„nto stood watch over the
live wires, diverting traffic, for
nv:.e than two hours. until
P�f,itr' tlti'lity line crews
at: ived to deal - with the torn
They blocked the street with.
f�;,rtts from Mr. Gilders' car
a, ,i directed all traffic away
ft ,nr the scene.
Phe men said the.lin s arced
for about :30 minutes and then
stopped. Police were not
available at the time, they ex-
plained.
.,The tree which was -torn
down grew only about 15 feet
from the home of E. Mallough
at 160 Widder Street`hut winds
felled it away from the house.
When the P.U.C. crew finally
disengaged themselves from the
east power failure it took them
until about '3:00 a.m. Sunday
morning to clear the fallen tree
at Widder and Calev Streets
and restore power service.
Evert Midden, P.U.C. Hydro
Foreman, said his crew retur-
ned to the damage. scenes on
Monday morning and com-
pleted clean up operations.
He said no estimate of
damage by the storm had been
drawn up but that property -loss
was fairly minimal.
"There were several rases of
minor damage to homes where
limbs fell across individual ser-
vice lines ripping stacks and
meters from the house," he ex-
plained.
"One home o McDonald
Street suffered , considerable
damage whet% [he stack and
meter were torn off taking with
them. chunks of siding and
facing boards under the eaves,"
he Said. "There were. also a lot
of T.V. towers torn down."
Goderich Police Chief Pat
King said the local force an-
swered three calls regarding
trees and power or telephone
wires down but investigated no
accidents connected with the
storm.
• Despite the high wind
weather office officials report
very little rain accompanied
the storm. Only about one half
inch fell on Saturday with just
a trace of precipitation being
registered on Sunday.
When the high winds swept
in off Lake Huron they piled
water into the Goderich harbor
and at one point, shortly after
10:00 p.m., completely sub-
merged the piers and docks at
the local waterfront.
Paul Carroll of the Goderich
Sail Club, organized a work
party at Snug Harbor and
directed . the moving of small
craft from their cradles, at the
water edge, to higher ground as
well as checks on mooring lines
of the larger boats docked in
Snug Harbor.
At one point, as the water
piled up, the racks holding
small craft were threatened
with floating free and being
dashed against the fixed piers.
Although one boat was
blown off its trailer and others
were bumped around very little
damage was suffered by any of
the craft.
Ivan McConnell, speaking for
the Goderich Elevator and
Transit Company, said the
storm had caused only minor
damage to equipment. owned by
that company at the local
waterfront.
"We were very lucky," he
said. ."Only 'two mooring cables
were broken and although the
barges were bumped around
This forest of small boat masts was apparent near Snug Harbor on Sunday morning after a
work crew organized by Paul Carroll, of the Goderich Sail Club, moved many of them from
racks near the waters edge to higher ground on Saturday night. The racks and cradles
holding the small craft were threatened with floating free as winds In excess of 50 miles per
hour began piling water Into the local harbor. Very little damage was done to boats moored,
or otherwise kept, at the small boat harbor. (staff photo)
Nits which1Ms were appgrtmt all over Gbderloh Sunday morning In the aftermath of a wind
a O ted to limed. in .encase of S0 mita per hour leaving broken and twisted
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Fifty mile per hou winds, whipping In off .Lake Huron, plied water Into the
Goderich Harbor Saturday evening sending local boaters sorembling to
oheok mooring 11 and moue smaII boat• to higher ground when they were
threatened wMha ..
being washed away. A Goderloh elevator soil Transit Com-
pany seokesmen oak! damage .to barest owned by that
company, arid
at the waterfront, was minor. (photo by Paul Johnston) at