The Lucknow Sentinel, 2015-08-12, Page 22 Lucknow Sentinel • Wednesday, August 12, 2015
Storm damage widespread across Huron -Kinloss
Troy Patterson
Kincardine News
A storm that passed over
the region from Lake Huron
downed trees, threw stone -
sized hail and knocked out
power in Huron -Kinloss and
Kincardine on Aug. 2.
The storm came in fast at
Kincardine, with many peo-
ple caught outside in the
heavy rains at Station Beach,
taking shelter by the bath-
rooms and other buildings.
Storms hit twice, once at
about 3:30 p.m. following the
drowning of a 16 -year-old
boy at Kincardine's Station
Beach, which
caused emergency crews to
withdraw, and again at 7:20
p.m. when the major weather
hit the region.
At Bruce Beach, a corridor a
few hundred metres wide was
pummelled by severe winds,
tearing down dozens of trees
and branches, causing dam-
age to vehicles and homes,
but no injuries. Janette
Wheeler, who lives on Lake
Range Drive, said her hus-
band set up a video camera at
the window and captured one
of their largest trees snapping
during the major gusts. The
video is viewable on Youtube
under `Severe Weather in Kin-
cardine Ontario Area
Along Boiler Beach Road, a
massive tree was uprooted in
a small trailer park and seen
leaning against power lines.
Numerous properties had
trees destroyed in the storm
and Hydro One forestry
crews were on scene on civic
holiday Monday, Aug. 3
cleaning up the trees interfer-
ing with the infrastructure.
Valerie Gillies of the Luc -
know Sentinel said various
roads were closed to pick up
numerous downed trees in
Lucknow following the storm.
"Looks like the worst
swaths of damage were
along Outram and Havelock
north from Hwy 86," Gillies
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said. "Was told of other trees
down over a car that a fence
saved on Walter Street on
east end of Lucknow. No
injuries to humans, but
some near misses as it came
up fast and they had to
scurry inside, some just a
minute or so before trees
and limbs came down where
they had been standing."
The roof of the warehouse
and storage building for
MacKenzie and McCreath
Funeral Home was torn off
in the high winds, and see
scattered across the back
deck of the neighbouring
home and down the street.
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Hydro One regional forestry maintainers Russ Reinwalk and Cory
Coleman remove trees from around power lines at Bruce Beach
on Aug. 4, 2015, following the storm.
A massive wind and electrical storm rolled in off Lake Huron,
causing widespread damage to trees and property, along with
hail and heavy rains. Jim Dawson had his car damaged by trees
while visiting Snowdown Lane at Bruce Beach in Huron -Kinloss.
Bones found on Teeswater property sent for testing
Scott Dunn
Owen Sound Sun Times
Bones found in southern
Bruce County are being tested
to see if they are human.
Someone fishing in a
pond west of Teeswater
pulled up bones that looked
like they were human, said
Jamie Armstrong, who oper-
ates a concrete ready -mix
plant on the property where
the bones were found.
Police gave no details in a
news release Friday morning
about what kind of bones
those discovered are suspected
to be or why the crime unit is
involved. The report to police
came in at 1:36 p.m. Thursday.
Police said the bones were
found in the 1200 -block of
Bruce County Rd. 6 in
Teeswater, which is 12 kilo-
metres west of Mildmay.
South Bruce OPP Const.
Kevin Martin said in an
e-mailed response to questions
that the bones were found on a
commercial property but oth-
erwise had little to add.
Armstrong, president of
Teeswater Concrete Ready
Mixed, said Friday in an inter-
view the bones have been
removed from his ready
mixed plant property at 1201
Bruce County Rd. 6 and taken
to London for forensic testing.
"Someone was fishing and
some bones were pulled up.
They said it resembled
human so anyways a report
went in to police," he said.
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plant operations, he said.
"find the anthropologist that
came appeared to think that it
was something that was not
criminal," Armstrong said. "It's
kind of unusual but I think a lot
of people are reading things
into this and it's not. It's not
what everybodythinks. But I'm
not allowed to speak on it."
He didn't say what he
thought people were thinking
and he declined to say more.
Martin said he hoped peo-
ple with information helpful
to the investigation will call
police at 1-888-310-1122, call
Crime Stoppers anonymously
at 1-800-222-8477 or send a
web -tip to crimestop-gb.org.
The OPP crime unit and
forensic units are investigat-
ing under the direction of
Det.-Insp. Heidi Stewart of
the criminal investigation
branch.
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