There is still power off in many communities across southern Ontario.
Hydro Ottawa says that this morning, 3,570 customers remain without power. "Some still affected by outages are in Arlington Woods, where devastation was greatest. Our crews continue to work to restore power in this heavily damaged area." Many homes were flattened or rendered uninhabitable. You can read more Twitter info, and view photos, on my page, here.
Red asked if we had a warning, and we did. The winds picked up, and the trees were showing us something was afoot. It built up over the day. One guy, in Dunrobin, said he received a French language message 10 minutes prior. They knew it was coming all day. We were warned. The ting is it was sunny one minute, and then it hit.
We are avid weather watchers, and we knew something was coming. Eventually, we received some warnings both on the TV, and online.
Butch feels that the birds are really messy, and she's really happy about that!
The trailcams have captured critters! JB and his faithful helper.
In the front yard, a doe, a deer...
The cats and the birds have an understanding. Annie sits under the feeder, and the birds know to watch for her! Hooper and Daisy aren't all that interested. They are all more keen on the chipmunk, who thinks he's more clever.
On of the issues feeding birds, are the raptors who prey on them. I heard, and saw, two things banging into the window. I was sitting in my chair and saw a mourning dove, chased by a hawk. The mourning dove flew off. The hawk landed, a bit in shock. Annabelle found it between the step and the garden implement cupboard. Hooper followed it. You can see it flying under the tree.
Hooper was discouraged from taking care of it, he did listen to me, and JB took him into the house. Annabelle had found it between the step and the storage cupboard.
I tried to pick it up, but it flew away. Hooper followed it down the hill in the front yard. Then, as JB and I were ready to capture it in a towel, put it into a box, and take it to our local rehab, it flew across the highway into the forest. WHEW!
In the meantime, as a male cardinal was at the feeder, another bird was being noisy in the tree. It is surmised that this is a juvenile cardinal, and daddy is feeding it. A late brood. The sound was a hoot. On his walk, JB found a dead female cardinal. I wonder if it was from the same family.
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I just had an email from my niece, who lives near Algonquin. Their power just came back on. Hopefully most of the city will be back online by the end of the day. Bless the hydro workers and first responders!
Here, in the midst of the massive storm in 2004, I watched from safely inside, as the pine trees blew down to a horizontal angle, then slowly stood upright again, until the next mighty gust. That afternoon, 17 fell over, the next morning a count showed 35 all down, like dominos, one on top of the other. We didn't get any news of your tornados down here, but Hugh's cousin and others are in Ontario right now, somewhere near London I think. They were in Tottenham earlier on.Guess I will hear in due course if it is near them.Stay safe.
That was a scary time -- so glad all is well with you. Weather just gets more and more severe everywhere and I don't think it's going to get better any time soon. ... wonderful birds -- I remember back when we used to feed them being worried sometimes that we were providing a cafeteria for the raptor that loved our yard (a Kestrel hawk).
On those hat sultry days you know something is up. You're just not sure when. They have warning systems in place but I'm not sure how good they are.
OMG - the tornado damage is hard to fathom. Hell hath no fury like a woman (Mother Nature) scorned … Meanwhile, glad the hawk is OK. All of God's creatures have a role to play, as hard as that may be to accept. (Butch, too!) I feel for that Dad Cardinal - a parent's work is never done - and that juvenile sounds like a persistent toddler!!!
I looked around- there was a third tornado that day, south of the city. The F3 was the one that got the most attention.
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