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Aftermath of Tuesday's storm.
Two days after a severe storm plowed through the Parkland, many rural residents are still without power.
Glen Taylor lives approximately 12 miles northeast of Roblin, and as of late Thursday night he was still relying on a generator for power.
"The storm tore down corrals, took a roof off a building and we’ve lost lots of our fences to trees that were knocked down. There’s a swath of trees in some crown land behind the farm that was completely flattened — it’s got to be close to a square mile that’s been destroyed," Taylor said.
The storm passed through the Roblin area and then moved east towards Grandview.
Tuesday evening was overcast and dark in Grandview, until the lightning began cracking.
"It was the biggest electrical storm I’ve ever seen. The whole town just lit up and you could see an orange glow from where the hydro was arching. It was blinding, almost like a welders flash," said Jody Suidy, who lives on an acreage on the edge of Grandview.
The worst of the storm didn’t hit the area until after midnight, so there aren’t any pictures that prove it was a tornado mucking around on Tuesday night. But some of the locals don’t require picture evidence to be convinced.
"There are big poplars around our yard and at least a dozen or more of them snapped off and landed on top of equipment and campers. There was a bin in our yard that was taken about a kilometre away — it went over top of a neighbor’s house and was set right in their yard," Suidy said.
The severe weather experienced in Grandview on Tuesday was part of a large system that affected communities across Manitoba and Saskatchewan.
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Republished from the Brandon Sun print edition June 29, 2012
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Two days after a severe storm plowed through the Parkland, many rural residents are still without power.
Glen Taylor lives approximately 12 miles northeast of Roblin, and as of late Thursday night he was still relying on a generator for power.
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Two days after a severe storm plowed through the Parkland, many rural residents are still without power.
Glen Taylor lives approximately 12 miles northeast of Roblin, and as of late Thursday night he was still relying on a generator for power.
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