** This thread discusses the content article: Incredible tornado video from Ontario!!! **

The rotation on this tornado looked to be particularly violent!
So sorry to read of fatalities. These northern tornadoes and severe storms in general can take you totally by surprise due to the north woods and isolation.
Hopefully, more folks will bring battery powered weather radios into the north country after this.

~Jo~

Sad concerning the fatalities, not good. Strong buildings totally destroyed? sounds like it might be the first EF-5 of the year. Could be more coming early next week for the North. Seems like the Jet stream is slowing down a bit though.

It's been pretty much all over The Weather Network up here... unfortunately two fatalities have been reported, one person missing and five injured. Apparently it was deemed an F-2. I would have thought at least an F-3 but, I wasn't there so I can't judge on too much.
The same cold front that was moving across at that time has now reached us in Southern Ontario! Almost no chance of a tornado, and I don't think there are any hail reports yet but heavy downpours and strong winds are with this. But as I write this, its pretty much over already. Well this wave of it anyway... we may get more rain.

That is a nasty Looking TORNADO!!!!

Of all places, I found this on fark.com
www.thestar.com/news/ontario/article/664510
Incredibly strange. That the one time a tornado would hit in northern Ontario...
Very unfortunate, but what are the chances?

Here is another story from a 17 year old survivor.
kstp.com/news/stories/S1024924.shtml?cat=1

And they just found the missing man in the lake.
www.winnipegfreepress.com/breakingnews/M...o-lake-50618912.html

Thanks for providing the links to the articles, Amara & Jim.
How incredibly ironic that the men who were killed had lived long lives in the heart of tornado alley. We just never know, do we?
And the story on the young man who survived with his family when their cabin went up too is amazing.
How do you process something like this? - when you make it, yet others right near you do not?
Heavy stuff to get your mind around...

~Jo~

Amazing they found the missing mans body a Kilometer away out in the lake.

As for the boy, I hope his parents keep a close eye on him for signs of PTSD. Surviving a storm like that can do it.