Researchers and contractors were combing over the site of a tornado that tore through a south\u002Dend Ottawa neighbourhood Thursday.
Connell Miller, a wind impacts researcher with Western University’s Northern Tornado Project, said a team of researchers was in the area investigating the scale of the twister.Miller said Friday that included looking at the size of its path and the extent of the damage.
A few residents watched from their porches or driveways as debris from their torn-up homes was collected..Basim and Aya Refat, along with their two children, were forced to vacate their house on the street due to extensive damage.Article content “So scary. I couldn’t see anything,” she recounted on Friday. “Everything was going away. The floor was moving. The window was broken.”
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