Major storm - huge lightning bolts

What power! There are many who needed the rain, the power of the storm was amazing.
The first storm hit Wednesday morning. Hydro One said Wednesday morning nearly 24,000 customers were without electricity, including more than 10,000 from Wiarton to Kincardine and east to Dundalk.
The storm cut power to thousands of homes and businesses in southwestern and southern Ontario early Wednesday.

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Two fronts came by us

CP24 has some great viewer photos from the next storm, Wednesday at dinner time. One shows hail the size of golf balls. We had only a brief amount of marble-sized hail. By the time I found the camera...they were gone! Not too many crops to damage in Ontario, as it is early in the season. Thank goodness. My peony are just blooming, and I've tried for years to grow them. Small mercies!

According to Hydro One, at 9:30 p.m. June 8th:

• 30,000 customers without power in Peterborough
• 40,000 customers without power in Tweed, Bancroft
• 25,000 customers without power in Orillia, Muskoka

Another 6,800 homes and businesses in the Guelph area were also affected.
In Orléans (east of Ottawa) several roads were flooded and manhole covers came off the road due to the forces of the water coming up through the drainage system.
In Muskoka's cottage country, Moon River Road, in Bala, is cut-off by downed trees. Acton Island was similarly hit. Many trees are down and all you can hear is the sound of generators!

Happy kids in many areas, with schools closed due to lack of power. Nice day for it! I pity the teachers trying to keep on teaching in June. Not like a Snow Day!

Bank Street was closed due to a sink hole, reopened today, Thursday. This is a major street in downtown Ottawa!
Roof ripped off of an apartment building in Gatineau.
Jared Young took some fabulous shots at the Experimental Farm.
One man died when his float plane flipped over in the wind:

Man dead after plane flips on Balsam Lake - Peterborough Examiner ...

The male pilot of a float plane is dead despite the frantic efforts of citizens who tried to save him after the aircraft flipped over in Balsam...

Such a shame. It blew in rather quickly, with a temperature drop here in Perth, Ontario, of 10 C. over the course of an hour.

Tornadoes reported as storms hit Ontario

Severe weather sweeps across southern and central Ontario, leading to at least one reported death on Wednesday and spawning several tornado reports.