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Gatineau, Que., residents are cleaning up washed-out streets and pumping out dozens of flooded basements on Friday, following a fierce thunderstorm that spawned a tornado over west Ottawa.
Environment Canada confirmed Friday that a large funnel cloud over Ottawa on Thursday night was, in fact, a class F0 tornado. The tornado, which registers as a 'gale tornado' on the Fujita scale with wind speeds of up to 116 km/h, did not touch down or cause any damage.
It was the second tornado recorded in Ontario this season, and developed south of Kanata before moving over Ottawa and then across the Ottawa River to the Aylmer section of Gatineau. The province normally sees 12 tornadoes a year.
Thursday night's torrential downpour turned roads into rivers and flooded about 40 homes near the Gatineau River.
By the next morning in Gatineau, a large section of Chemin des Érables had collapsed, resulting in the road being closed.
One section of the washed-out street had become a waterfall, with water gushing out of a pond on one side of the road and cascading into a gully on the other. Parts of the guardrail lay crumpled below with a broken chunk of asphalt.
No power, phone service
Marc Perron, who has lived near Chemin des Érables for more than 20 years, said it was the worst flooding he's ever experienced.
"At some point it was so high, the water was going over the two gullies," he said. "There was almost a foot of water on the main street going above and coming down the street."
Perron was left to clean up water that had reached higher than 60 centimetres in his basement Friday. He and several of his neighbours lost power and phone service, and were forced to seek shelter elsewhere overnight, as were people living on Paquin Street.
Nearby on Poirier Street, Suzanne Tremblay was in a similar situation
Environment Canada confirmed Friday that a large funnel cloud over Ottawa on Thursday night was, in fact, a class F0 tornado. The tornado, which registers as a 'gale tornado' on the Fujita scale with wind speeds of up to 116 km/h, did not touch down or cause any damage.
It was the second tornado recorded in Ontario this season, and developed south of Kanata before moving over Ottawa and then across the Ottawa River to the Aylmer section of Gatineau. The province normally sees 12 tornadoes a year.
Thursday night's torrential downpour turned roads into rivers and flooded about 40 homes near the Gatineau River.
By the next morning in Gatineau, a large section of Chemin des Érables had collapsed, resulting in the road being closed.
One section of the washed-out street had become a waterfall, with water gushing out of a pond on one side of the road and cascading into a gully on the other. Parts of the guardrail lay crumpled below with a broken chunk of asphalt.
No power, phone service
Marc Perron, who has lived near Chemin des Érables for more than 20 years, said it was the worst flooding he's ever experienced.
"At some point it was so high, the water was going over the two gullies," he said. "There was almost a foot of water on the main street going above and coming down the street."
Perron was left to clean up water that had reached higher than 60 centimetres in his basement Friday. He and several of his neighbours lost power and phone service, and were forced to seek shelter elsewhere overnight, as were people living on Paquin Street.
Nearby on Poirier Street, Suzanne Tremblay was in a similar situation
