High Winds and Electronic Glitches LeaveNiagara At Large Temporarily Out Of Order

A Brief Note from Niagara At Large publisher Doug DraperIf you are wondering – and I hope at least a few of you are – why you haven’t found any new posts on Niagara At Large over the past couple of days, the wind storm that swept Niagara and other regions of Ontario didn’t make staying on line all that easy.

Stormy skies loom over Lake Erie in this photo taken by Fort Erie resident Paul Kassay earlier this November. Point Abino and its iconic lighthouse are visible in the distance.

Sustained winds gusting to speeds as high as 100 kilometres an hour blew through the region for the better half of 24 hours this Thursday, October 31 and the first day of November, snapping tree branches and knocking down power lines in some communities.

Tragically, a Port Colborne woman in her late 50s was killed during the storm when a large tree fell and crushed the car she was driving. Although her identity was not released at the time of this posting, our hearts go out to members of her family.

The death of one of our fellow Niagarians in this – the latest of a number of severe storms that seem to be hitting us in higher frequencies – certainly puts things in perspective as far as other damage or interruption of services the winds caused. Spending time this weekend cleaning up branches on my lawn is a very small thing by comparison.

Weather permitting, Niagara At Large will be back in full swing this coming Monday, November 4^th.

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