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4 WOOLWICH OBSERVER • NEWS • JULY 27, 2002 WHAT’S BUGGING YOU? July 26 - August 10, 2002 Bug B Gone Diazinon For lawns, trees and gardens, kills over 20 kinds of lawn & garden insects. 1 litre treats up to 3,600 sq. ft. 530545 Reg. 17.99 1 L $13 99 Konk Too Insect Killer 500g 12/Case Metered pressurized aerosol insecticide spray. 552506 Reg. 17.79 ea. BY THE CASE $1600 ea. Foam Wasp & Hornet Killer Unique foam spray blankets hornet and wasp nests. Long jet spray allows operation from a safe distance. 530731 Reg. 8.99 $699 SAVE SUMMER! - Canning supplies now in stock! www.fsstores.com Waterloo-Oxford Co-operative ELMIRA BRANCH 21 Church Street West 519-669-5475 Earwig Destroyer Ready-to-use bait that attracts and kills earwigs. For use around the house and patio, in flower beds, vegetable gardens and strawberry patches. Also effective for cutworms and sowbugs. 530229 Reg. 7.99 500g $5 99 Moskit Fly Catchers The old fashion fly catcher - hang it - pull it - forget it! Safe, effective, and non toxic to humans and animals. 530509 Reg. 2.79 4/pack $1 99 Ramik Rat & Mouse Killer All weather bar. An effective, economical rodenticide well suited for a maintenance program or for occassional rodent problems. 552435 Reg. 4.39 $3 89 All Can-Vet Fly Sprays YOUR CHOICE SAVE 5 % ®Trademarks of AIR MILES International Trading B.V. Used under licence by Loyalty Management Group Canada, Inc. and GROWMARK®, Inc. We reserve the right to limit quantities and correct print errors. All items available while quantities last. SEE MORE STORM DAMAGE Visit the de Boer family web space at: http:members.rogers.com/deboern/storm/page_01.htm NEIL de BOER THE BIGGER THEY ARE… Damage was also high on Isabella St., where this tree on Milo Shantz’s property was knocked over by a good gust of wind. Storm packs punch (CONTINUED FROM COVER) was issued on Monday, however, based on some of the criteria being met to issue this highest of summertime weather warnings, explained Phillips. Once the storm ended, the reaction to the damage started as the township’s emergency action team kicked into gear to assess the damage and plan the appropriate response, which happened in what township chief administrative officer Peter Simmons called a textbook manner. Firefighters from the St. Jacobs area were among the first to respond, with Woolwich Fire Chief Earl Wideman and district chief Clare Weber directing their trucks to assess damage on St. Jacobs streets shortly after 1 p.m. Wideman then made the call to the remaining members of the township emergency control group, mayor Bill Strauss, Simmons, operations manager Rod Kruger and Sgt. Merv Knechtel at the Elmira detachment of the regional police. This group of people arrived at the fire hall shortly before 1:30 p.m. and examined the information from firefighters and some police already on scene. Since the damage was confined to portions of the township the response fell under the ‘local incident’ definition, said Simmons, which meant that repair and cleanup coordination be handled by the township in conjunction with affected services, in this case mainly Waterloo North Hydro but also Bell Canada and Rogers Cable who then send out their own crews. “The crews are sent out and they of course then do their own assessment of the damage. They are the technical experts. I’ll use Waterloo North Hy- dro as the example, they have to assess the damage to their infrastructure and then set about their own damage containment procedures and then the associated cleanup,” explained Simmons. “That’s done with the full coordination of the fire chief and the onsite police representative… it was obviously a significant deal to St. Jacobs so having the right bodies there immediately was crucial and they were there promptly.” In fact, hydro crews were already nearby working on other projects when the storm came through, said Waterloo North Hydro spokesperson John Janzen. “The timing for us was not ideal because it’s summertime so we have people taking vacation and so on. At the same time it’s also one of the busiest times for our crews for construction and all that sort of work,” he noted. “We did a bit of scrambling but really we were very pleased with the response when we had to call a few people in,” said Janzen. “Conestogo itself was back on by about 7 p.m., St. Jacobs about an hour later. For the most part, our customers were back on that we could get back on. We did have some crews that did worked right through the night until about 6:30 a.m. answering miscellaneous calls for blown fuses and things of that nature.” Other services that took damage also report that repairs are complete at this stage. Rogers Cable had six technicians working in the area repairing cable line hook-ups damaged by fallen trees and rain. Bell Canada reported that there were no major outages in phone service as a result of the storm, only individual phone lines that have also been repaired. The storm caused a minor upswing in insurance claims from the region as well, with customers calling in to their local broker or general claims line to both report damage and verify whether specific damage was covered by their policy. “A lot of times out of these storms we do get calls like ‘is this covered,’ sort of thing. Under any standard property insurance policy, wind damage and all lightning and that sort of thing is insured,” said Allen Morrison of The Co-operators in Elmira, adding that tree damage isn’t always covered depending on how it happened. “That can be kind of a grey area, because if it’s a situation where if a tree is blown over and hits your house, hits the neighbour’s car, that sort of thing, it may come under your liability. But if a tree falls down and it is determined that it is caused by wind [but] it didn’t cause any type of damage, in most cases it’s up to the home owner or the property owner to clean it up.” That’s what Charter may need to do with some of her downed trees on Northside Drive, although she said she would try and claim damage from all three downed trees. Although two of them came to rest away from the house they did cause paint damage to the siding of her house, while the third, which fell in front of her living room, caused similar damage. She’s not too worried though, and is confident that things will work themselves out regardless. “It’s okay though, insurance pays for it. We’ll get them to come in and take it down. I’m just glad nobody got hurt, especially the kids.”
What makes a storm a tornado? The storm that swept through the township on July 21 had many residents thinking a tornado had touched down in St. Jacobs and Conestogo, something that Environment Canada has not confirmed. The wind and rain, described by some residents as a “white sheet” that enveloped trees and bushes and uprooted many of them in the process was actually what senior climatologist David Phillips calls a ‘severe thunderstorm.’ Determining what the disturbance was is largely based on eye witness accounts and the examination of data after the fact, when specific criteria are used to determine which label is most appropriate. For a severe thunderstorm, explained Phillips, three main criteria are used. “One, winds have to be about 90 km/h, gusts that would produce some very damaging kinds of situations. You get hail that was maybe golf ball size, maybe an inch-and-ahalf or greater. Or you could have very heavy rain, say 50 mm in less than three hours,” said Phillips. “All of those would be severe criteria, which would prompt an issuing of a severe thunderstorm warning. Implied in that is the possibility that tornados could be embedded. We would not issue a tornado warning unless we actually saw it. “Now all of that is to say that in a severe thunderstorm—and there were severe thunderstorm warnings in the St. Jacobs, Guelph, and Kitchener-Waterloo-Cambridge area— you can get events. You can get happenings within severe thunderstorms that can give you the damage of a tornado, but not the twisting of the tornado. In other words, the downburst winds, the cold air coming straight down from the upper air, inside that [downburst] you can have both air rising and both air falling, and as the air descends – and there were some very significant temperature changes that took place because the cold air is very heavy, very dense, very thick – and when it gets moving down, it can move with a tremendous force that can uproot trees… They can certainly give you the same damage that a weak tornado could deliver,” he added. Phillips was careful to say that regardless of what the storm was called it does nothing to diminish the overall damage, and that making the differentiation often relies on examining the patterns in which the damage was caused. Tornados tend to produce erratic patterns of damage, whereas the up to 100 km/ hr blasts of wind seen in a severe thunderstorm would cause a more regular pattern of damage. Only after the storm can this distinction be made as it has been in Woolwich in observations of the orientation of fallen trees – mostly towards the west – and in looking at flattened crops, which were all bent in the same direction regardless of the field’s location in the storm’s path. To further complicate the matter Phillips said there were several reports of funnel clouds in the area, which he described as “a twisting, rotating cloud that doesn’t touch the ground. There’s often no damage from them.” If a tornado had hit the area it wouldn’t be that uncommon though added Phillips, who said that in any typical year there are about 25 tornadoes in southwestern Ontario, still only 10 per cent of the total number of storms classified as severe thunderstorms. As further evidence Phillips said of approximately 100,000 severe thunderstorms in North America only 1,000 make it to tornado status – both scientifically and symbolically. “It almost becomes more of a status symbol to be hit by a tornado and people will get so irate with Environment Canada and say ‘what do you mean it wasn’t a tornado? I mean it was, I saw it,’” said Phillips. “When you have that air flying, always out of the top layer of clouds right down to the ground, when the air hits the ground and then it also squirts along – and you’ve got the motion of the storm too – it can be a pretty violent wind that can be well over 100 km/h.” Regardless of terminology however this was one storm that will keep the folks in Woolwich talking for some time. 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