'To watch it actually grow in front of you was pretty crazy,' Thunder Bay man says
THUNDER BAY — What started out as a typical summer afternoon quickly turned into an unforgettable spectacle for some campers at Marks Lake on the Labour Day weekend.
Thunder Bay resident Brent Schaworski said: "It was pretty awesome to see the power of nature like that come out of nowhere . . . To watch it actually grow in front of you was pretty crazy.""It was a nice sunny day, so we got into the water and were getting everything ready to move the boat lift around. Then the wind started picking up, so we left it to sit down for a while, and were watching a thunderstorm kind of grow on the other side of the lake.
Within 30 or 40 seconds, Schaworski said, "it grew. There was kind of like two of them put together, and it came across right to the shoreline, grabbed the boat lift, grabbed the dock, flipped everything over. And as fast as it was there, it was gone, and never touched the neighbours. Some of the people didn't even know what happened until it was posted later on Facebook."
"But if we weren't there, physically, watching it happen, I would never have believed that it happened right in front of us because there was no damage on the shore or to the neighbours or anything like that," Schaworski said.
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