Windy...

[fajrdrako]

After work I walked to the library and back to my place. It was windy. Sunny, warm, otherwise pleasant, but so windy that I had clutch the masonry on the Bank Street bridge when I went across. I was going to cut across Lansdowne Park, but a cop stopped me and said it wasn't safe: that large pieces of plywood had been blown off the buildings and

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[duncanmac]

I'm glad you're OK.

Large parts of the city have been blacked out, including the place I live in South Keys, the Alta Vista library branch and large parts of the West End. Wind gusts up to (and sometimes over) 60 mph have apparently occurred.

I'm at the Main Library right now, but hope to go home later.

[fajrdrako]

I'm glad I'm okay, too. Hang onto your hat - and any other attached bits!

I heard there were blackouts. I saw lots of traffic lights out. Someone said the power stopped in our building for a few minutes, but if it did, I didn't notice. Maybe it was before I got home.

It seems calmer now, thank goodness.

[xinef]

My mother's FB status (Niagara-on-the-Lake, from this morning):

Now I know how Dorothy felt in the Wizard of Oz. The wind here is horrific. The shingle have blown off one block of units and the insurance office is closed because a tree came down on their roof!! You may hear from me from Oz. LOL

[fajrdrako]

Eeee! I hope it's getting calmer there now, too. I saw lots of large branches and twigs on the ground, but no actual fallen trees, thank goodness.

[xinef]

Further from Mum:

NOTL basically shut down. Power out in some areas, not here thank goodness. Shingles all over our road. Trees down all over town and one house had the roof blown off. Never have seen anything like it.

[duncanmac]

Yipe! I hope everybody's OK down there.

The worst I have heard so far is a facade peeled off a building in downtown Toronto.