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| St_Andrew |
wii so i have known for some time that i'm going to canada as an exchange student next fall, and today i got the information about where. i'm going to live in Mitchell, ontario, and i think i'm going to attend a school in Stratford.
anyone knows anything about those places? great/average/bad/whatever? any TAs who lives there? :)
wow i'm looking forward to this :) |
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| Jayx1 |
Yes mitchell just got knocked over by a tornado last week.. You should double check to see if where you plan to live is still standing.
Im not joking either! |
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| Jayx1 |
Mitchell, Ont. — A tornado that struck southwestern Ontario over the weekend may have been the strongest to hit the province in eight years, and Environment Canada officials are warning that there could be more violent weather this season.
“Given the damage that I've witnessed today, it's a miracle that no one was hurt,” Geoff Coulson, an Environment Canada meteorologist said from the scene of the investigation.
The wave of severe weather Saturday evening spawned at least one twister, and maybe two, in an area not far from Stratford, Ont., he said.
Early signs are that a tornado that sucked the roof from a home in Gads Hill, Ont., had wind speeds close to 300 kilometres per hour, making it an usually severe F3 on the Fujita tornado measurement scale, Environment Canada reported Sunday. The last storm to rate an F3 rating in the province struck an area near Orangeville in 1996, Mr. Coulson said.
The Fujita scale measures a storm's severity with ratings from the relatively tame F0 to the savage F5. There has never been an F5 tornado recorded in Canada.
Parts of the area were still in a state of emergency Sunday. Many homes were without power, two barns were destroyed, two homes lost their roofs and a number of other properties were damaged in the storm.
“One of the residents here in Gads Hill was actually in his room on the upper floor when the roof was taken off. By some miracle he wasn't hurt,” said Mr. Coulson.
Although area residents escaped without harm, two calves injured at one of the farms had to be destroyed, he said.
Witness Mike Jovanovski said he was working the supper-hour rush at Merle's Coffee Nook in Mitchell, Ont., when the sky went dark and the skies opened Saturday evening.
“We had a lot of rainfall, and then when the tornado was near to us, you could almost see waves in the street because the tornado was spinning around and pushing the water back,” said Mr. Jovanovski, 35, who stood in the window and watched the storm.
“This is the closest I've ever been to a tornado,” he said, adding damage to nearby buildings indicates the storm might have passed as close as 100 metres from his business.
He said he's not sure why he didn't seek shelter.
“I've never experienced what powers a tornado possesses,” he said. “I didn't even think I could die.”
But Mr. Coulson said most area residents took appropriate precautions, seeking the safety of their basements when they heard warnings about the approaching tornado.
The fickle storms, which can crush a home and leave the next-door neighbours unscathed, typically strike the province about 14 times a year during a season that extends from April to October.
The unsettled weather showed no sign of abating on Sunday with Environment Canada issuing severe weather watches and warnings across southwestern Ontario.
On Thursday, a storm near Caledonia, Ont., dropped one funnel, which investigators later confirmed was the first twister of the season.
Mr. Coulson said these early twisters serve as a good reminder that it's important to be prepared — and cautious.
“It's human nature to be interested in this stuff, but you've got to fight against that and think of yourself and your family and get into as sturdy a shelter as you can find, or into a basement,” he said.
Most tornadoes to strike the province are on the weaker end of the spectrum, rating F0 or F1 on the Fujita scale, but every few years, something more violent strikes.
It was 19-years ago on May 31 that a string of deadly twisters spun through the Barrie area, killing a dozen people, including four children. More died later in hospital from injuries sustained that day.
An estimated 14 tornadoes swept through the area in just a few hours. Although most caused only property damage, one struck the city of Barrie and another touched down long enough to cut an unusually long 90-kilometre track through the picturesque countryside.
It was one of the most violent storms ever recorded in Canada, with one tornado earning an F4 rating. Similarly, the mighty twister that devastated Edmonton on July 31, 1987, was deemed an F4. On a day that came to be known as “black Friday,” that storm killed 27 and left a massive swathe of destruction in its wake.
It also left a legacy of safety improvements. Earlier this month, the Alberta government finally announced the results of a project devised after the killer twister struck. An emergency early warning system is now in place across the province that will allow officials to interrupt radio and TV broadcasts with severe weather alerts.
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/serv...Story/National/ |
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| starsearcher |
| quote: | Originally posted by Jayx1
Yes mitchell just got knocked over by a tornado last wekk.. You should double check to see if where you plan to live is still standing.
Im not joking either! |
That's not a very welcoming note to a new friend :D
Although that may be true still...:D |
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| dEsidEL |
i wasn't even aware a town called Mitchell , ON existed .. :wtf:
anyways .. welcome welcome .. :D
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| xls |
| quote: | Originally posted by St_Andrew
wii so i have known for some time that i'm going to canada as an exchange student next fall, and today i got the information about where. i'm going to live in Mitchell, ontario, and i think i'm going to attend a school in Stratford.
anyone knows anything about those places? great/average/bad/whatever? any TAs who lives there? :)
wow i'm looking forward to this :) |
never been to Mitchell, but Stratford's a nice little town. It's about 2 hours from Toronto or so. You might be kind of bored if you're used to partying it up! Here's the city of Stratford's website:
http://www.city.stratford.on.ca/ |
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| Jayx1 |
| not much to do in stratford... especially for someone who is used to europe. |
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| Jayx1 |
| PS Sweden is a nice country. I stayed in stockholm and Gavle. Very clean, modern and friendly :gsmile: |
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| nycionx |
| tornodo...ya ur fukd buddy |
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| St_Andrew |
thanks everyone :)
yeah i somehow had a feeling that they weren't the funniest towns in the universe, but hey i will make fun out of it anyway :) will buy a laptop with me so i can play with that anyway :p
the stratford site looked nice, they even had a golf course :toocool: :p
hope to get to toronto sometime for some clubbing 
scary that with the tornando btw =) hehe... hope they are okay :)
and yeah sweden is rather nice, but i hope canada is as good =) |
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| cap |
Don't worry , Canada is one of the most welcoming, safest, and best places to live in the world.
(Just ask the 10 million immigrants that move here every year, they'll agree :) ) |
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| ShadoWolf |
| Stratford is a pretty little town. |
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