ODESSA - While the rest of us were watching Saturday's wild weather from the comfort of our homes, Matthew Hoekstra was watching a tornado rip apart the world around him.
Hoekstra was working in a large storage building next to his family home off Highway 2, west of Odessa, on Saturday morning when a tornado plucked the wood and metal building off its foundations, reducing it to rubble with Hoekstra still underneath.
The fact it was a tornado, and not a more common microburst, was confirmed Monday by Environment Canada.
“We can confirm that it was tornadic. It was an actual tornado,” said Peter Kimbell, a warning preparedness meteorologist with Environment Canada out of Ottawa.
He said tornados are not common in this area but have happened before.
“It was a bit unusual that there would be a tornado near Kingston in September but it happened and we can confirm that it was an F2 tornado that affected the Storm's Corners area,” he said.
http://www.ottawasun.com/2012/09/10/tornado-hits-west-of-kingston
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