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Another massive storm yesterday.

Now, correct me if I'm wrong, but in Thunder Bay I don't remember any "big" storms going through, aside from snow storms. I don't remember any big boomers of a thunderstorm like yesterday. It flooded out the highways in Toronto.

They had a tornado in FERGUS. When I think "Fergus", I don't think "state of emergency". I think "that wacky little town on the Grand River with the AWESOME looking, old school municipal pool".

The place is a mess and heaven help us if the damage is close to the highway. Most of the towns up there, like Authur, Guelph, Mount Forest and Fergus have highway 6 going right through them. From the photos floating around, it does look like the area has closed highways, but do you think I can find a listing of highway numbers?. Nope. We're driving up on Sunday to Durham and I have a feeling that I'll be dragging out the road atlas to find detours.

This is the best I could find:
http://centrewellington.thefountainpen.com/cgi-bin/showstory?id=4025

It's a nice area too, when tornados aren't ripping through it. How can you find fault with a town when a rainbow is big news? Nobody died in the storm, which only further supports Tas's "Canada has warm fluffy powers" theory

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This year has been phenomanaly low for death by tornados in the US, with only seven. In some months, the average number of tornado related casulaties is more than seven.

Not that I'm trying to disprove the "Canada has warm fluffy powers" theory or anything.

And speaking of massive storms, we just had one roll though time a few hours ago. It was black out there.

The "Canada has warm fluffy powers" theory is just a running joke between me and Tas (

urufudo). It started with the plane crash at Pearson this month. Nobody died, so Tas figured "It must be that Canadian fluffy warm power. XD "Oops, hey dere, plane! Don't be doin' that! :X" Or some weird crap like that. LOL"

The theory doesn't hold up in practice, as the crash was very similar to an earlier crash in the 70s which caused the deaths of 2 people. There's also October Crisis, the Montreal massacre, Centennial Secondary School shooting... the list goes on.
We beat Columbine by years.

I heard about that from my dad yesterday and saw a bit of the after effect on the news... x_x I can't believe that Toronto was flooded so badly like that. People in Thunder Bay can get their basements flooded if it's been raining a lot, but only after a very long period of time and it's usually people who live on the outskirts of the city who have to deal with it... and on top of that, it's often a technical problem wth their basements.

There was one storm I can remember that took place a few years ago when I was still in high school, where small wind-funnels touched down in a lot of places. The aftermath was pretty bad; there were trees uprooted everywhere and branches laying all over the roads but I don't think that many people or properties themselves were damaged, if any at all. o_O That's as bad as it's ever gotten here from anything that I can remember.

But yeah... I saw on the news that a lot of people's basements were flooded in Toronto. :/ And that sucks, considering the amount of basement apartments down there (yet another good reason not to get one). x_x I hope that you didn't run into any problems because of the storm. :/ And Canada DOES have fluffy warm powers, I swear. XD;; I haven't been proven wrong yet!

Oh, I'm fine here. ^^ The house next door has had water damage this summer, but that place is a shithole. The worst damage that's happened to family or friends is that Terry, my unofficial godfather, had a roof leak in his office and it soaked some new equipment.