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• Ottawa restaurants pick up pieces, clean out fridges and freezers in wake of weekend's power outage

  24-09-2018 23:52 via ottawacitizen.com
  Before Randy Fitzpatrick was able to re-open Petit Bill’s Bistro on Wellington Street West for dinner Monday, the restaurateur had to count his losses.
  Like hundreds of restaurants in Ottawa, from fine-dining destinations to souvlaki joints and not just along Wellington Street but also in Barrhaven, Kanata, Centrepointe, Hintonburg, Chinatown, Little Italy, New Edinburgh and beyond, Fitzpatrick’s business was without power after Friday’s tornado and storm ravaged the city&rsquo
  
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• Canadian Forces to expand its presence in Yellowknife

  24-09-2018 23:35 via ottawacitizen.com
  The Canadian Forces is expanding its permanent footprint in northern Canada.
  A new building project in Yellowknife will see the construction of a 7,600-m2 building for some of the technical services elements of the Joint Task Force North Area Support Unit, and the 1st Canadian Rangers Patrol Group Headquarters. “The technical services are for supply and materiel management, vehicle maintenance, transport, and traffic (which is mostly responsible for the movement of materiel),” D
  
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• Why a basement is the safest place to be during a tornado, explained

  24-09-2018 23:32 via ottawacitizen.com
  At the moment you realize a tornado is at your door, you may have time to get to the basement — your best option — or, barring that, a small closet or room, but that’s about it. Your roof may be gone in seconds, and if that happens, the rest of your house is likely to quickly follow.
  WHAT DID THE DUNROBIN TORNADO LOOK LIKE?
  According to Greg Johnson, aka Tornado Hunter, a professional storm chaser and extreme weather expert from Regina, the Category EF-3 tornado that devas
  
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• After the storm - @hydroottawa asking that you take it easy on the power until everyone is back online. #ottnews… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  24-09-2018 23:30 via twitter.com
  After the storm - @hydroottawa asking that you take it easy on the power until everyone is back online. #ottnews… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
  
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• A few meetings have been scheduled by @ville_gatineau for storm victims. #ottnews twitter.com/OttawaMatters/…

  24-09-2018 23:09 via twitter.com
  A few meetings have been scheduled by @ville_gatineau for storm victims. #ottnews twitter.com/OttawaMatters/…
  
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• Tornado aftermath: Design of electric LRT system ensures passenger safety if power goes out

  24-09-2018 23:08 via ottawacitizen.com
  The city has designed the $2.1-billion Confederation Line LRT system so the trains can keep running even if an electricity outage hits one of the power conversion facilities along the 12.5-kilometre transit line.
  In an email relayed by city communications officer Carly Wolff, O-Train construction director Steve Cripps said the LRT could continue running if one of the power converters conked out.
  “In the event of a power outage in a specific station, the electrical design of the statio
  
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• Reevely: 'This was pretty much a worst-case scenario' — inside Hydro Ottawa's brutal weekend

  24-09-2018 23:08 via ottawacitizen.com
  As electricity started flowing into blacked-out neighbourhoods Sunday night, Hydro Ottawa’s brass watched screens in their Merivale Road command centre.
  Besides experts monitoring the capital’s power system at workstations, the utility’s functional headquarters has social-media feeds up where everybody can see them. In normal times, when technicians and engineers haven’t spent two days figuring out how to work around a tornado-blasted transmission station to restore power
  
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• Tornado aftermath: Police warn against unnecessary visits to view destruction, disaster tourism

  24-09-2018 23:07 via ottawacitizen.com
  Ottawa police on Monday continued to warn those who do not live in the affected storm and tornado areas to avoid travelling to them.
  “First and foremost, it’s not a secure area,” said Chief Charles Bordeleau, at the corner of Thomas A. Dolan Parkway and Dunrobin Road in Dunrobin — an area with multiple road closures and detours.
  “It’s not a safe area. There’s a lot of trucks, a lot of people moving around, a lot of equipment, so (non-essential people) ne
  
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• Tornado aftermath: Garbage removal companies provide muscle in storm cleanup

  24-09-2018 23:06 via ottawacitizen.com
  Garbage removal companies have been muscling some fridges out of basements and unloading oozing ice cream containers from others since the mass power outage began last Friday.
  Workers with Capital Junk were in central Ottawa on Monday cleaning out a gelato shop that lost a display case and storage space full of treats.
  Audrey Stonehouse, customer service manager at Capital Junk, which is headquartered near Slack and Merivale roads — not far from the heavily storm- and tornado-damaged Nepea
  
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• Bagnall: Construction skills tight in advance of rebuilding effort post-tornado

  24-09-2018 23:05 via ottawacitizen.com
  The terrifying thing about tornadoes is their randomness, with disproportionately few suffering the brunt of the pain.
  So it was in the capital region Friday when mere hundreds of households — out of more than half a million across the region — were stunned by the sudden turn in their lives.
  In the days to come, the shock of what’s been lost will in many cases be replaced by frustration at how long it takes to put things back to normal, at least as far as physical things are co
  
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• Ford striking special committee to dig deeper into Ontario's fiscal situation ottawamatters.com/around-ontario…

  24-09-2018 23:00 via twitter.com
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• Gatineau residents picking up the pieces following destructive tornados ottawamatters.com/national-news/…

  24-09-2018 22:30 via twitter.com
  Gatineau residents picking up the pieces following destructive tornadosottawamatters.com/national-news/…
  
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• St. John Ambulance save Army runner in cardiac arrest

  24-09-2018 22:29 via ottawacitizen.com
  Volunteers with St. John Ambulance Canada saved the life of a runner who collapsed just as he was about to cross the finish line of the Canada Army run Sunday.
  After cardiopulmonary resuscitation and a shock from an automatic external defibrillator delivered by a pair of the organization’s medical first responders, the man regained sinus rhythm.
  “He is now in hospital and will soon return to his wife and daughter,” the volunteer society reported, hashtagging the happy ending #s
  
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• When the tornadoes hit last Friday, @ottawahumane lost its ability to sterilize equipment or wash towels and blanke… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  24-09-2018 22:20 via twitter.com
  When the tornadoes hit last Friday, @ottawahumane lost its ability to sterilize equipment or wash towels and blanke… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
  
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• Centretown apartment fire out with no one hurt ottawamatters.com/local-news/cen…

  24-09-2018 22:00 via twitter.com
  Centretown apartment fire out with no one hurtottawamatters.com/local-news/cen…
  
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• Tornado aftermath: As residents toss mountains of spoiled food, armies of suppliers have mobilized to keep supplies moving

  24-09-2018 20:28 via ottawacitizen.com
  It wasn’t just emergency crews that were working overtime on the weekend.
  Armies of food suppliers were clocking extra hours to ensure that supplies of perishable items would stay safe during a two-day-long blackout, while organizing armies of shipping trucks to beef up deliveries to grocery stores across the national capital area.
  Cynthia Thompson, a spokeswoman for Sobeys Inc., said the company’s operations team was working overtime on the weekend ensuring that stores that were out
  
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• Tornado aftermath: How to prepare for a worst-case scenario

  24-09-2018 20:25 via ottawacitizen.com
  Candles but no matches, a near-empty gas tank, no cash when the debit system was down — even in the stores that had power.
  Guilty!
  Not all of us were as prepared as we could have been for the two devastating tornados and storm that passed through the Ottawa-Gatineau region Friday — although some get-ready guides from government skip what in 2018 seem like essentials, such as a back-up power supply to charge cellphones when many of us have cut the cord to a landline.
  Below is a list o
  
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• Tornado aftermath: Volunteers step in to help hundreds of elderly residents without food after storm

  24-09-2018 20:00 via ottawacitizen.com
  A four storey building that is home to about 40 elderly residents is still without power Monday after a couple of tornadoes ripped through the capital Firday.
  The scene at 57 Bateman Dr. has attracted an army of volunteers who are standing outside cooking meals, running generators and taking water and supplies to the residents.
  According to Amy McConnell, who runs a business that helps elderly people to find retirement accommodations, the outpouring of support from volunteers has been outstandin
  
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• Anyone who can get their hands on a couple of hay tarps for folks in #Dunrobin so they can close in homes still sta… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  24-09-2018 19:47 via twitter.com
  Anyone who can get their hands on a couple of hay tarps for folks in #Dunrobin so they can close in homes still sta… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
  
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• Today's letters: Tornado aftermath – Kudos to everyone who helped

  24-09-2018 19:45 via ottawacitizen.com
  Thanks, keep calm, and carry on
  Re: Wreckage, resilience, Sept. 25.
  While I was affected by the tornado with my power out for only two days, a mere inconvenience compared to what others are experiencing, my heart goes out to those who have had such devastation brought to the lives.
  I would like to thank the many emergency crews who have been working tirelessly to restore power and provide safety and security to those who need it. “Keep calm and carry on.”
  Sue Reilley, Ottawa
  Invest i
  
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• Spoiled food stinking up your fridge because of the storm? The city has set up dumpsters in all corners for your fo… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  24-09-2018 19:45 via twitter.com
  Spoiled food stinking up your fridge because of the storm? The city has set up dumpsters in all corners for your fo… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
  
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• Residents in Craig Henry & Arlington Woods: Hydro crews are going door-to-door to assess your electrical equipment.… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  24-09-2018 18:45 via twitter.com
  Residents in Craig Henry & Arlington Woods: Hydro crews are going door-to-door to assess your electrical equipment.… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
  
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• The City of Ottawa has set up 15 bins across the capital for people to dispose of spoiled food. Locations include:… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  24-09-2018 18:37 via twitter.com
  The City of Ottawa has set up 15 bins across the capital for people to dispose of spoiled food. Locations include:… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
  
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• The @rick_gibbons Show for Monday, September 24th: 1:05: @hydroottawa 1:10: @OSLSafetyGuy 1:17: #NicoleLouden 1:30:… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  24-09-2018 17:59 via twitter.com
  The @rick_gibbons Show for Monday, September 24th: 1:05: @hydroottawa 1:10: @OSLSafetyGuy 1:17: #NicoleLouden 1:30:… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
  
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• NEXT on the Power Lunch: @SamLapradeCFRE & @DannyKingsbury join @_MarkSutcliffe live in-studio: 📻: 1310 💻:… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  24-09-2018 17:55 via twitter.com
  NEXT on the Power Lunch: @SamLapradeCFRE & @DannyKingsbury join @_MarkSutcliffe live in-studio:📻: 1310 💻:… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
  
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• UPDATED: Ottawa's beloved Farm Boy stores to be sold to owner of Sobey's grocery chain

  24-09-2018 17:26 via ottawacitizen.com
  Moments after the owner of the Sobeys chain announced it was taking over Ottawa-based Farm Boy on Monday, Shannon M took to Twitter to level a warning at the grocery giant.
  “I swear to god, Sobeys, if you screw up Farm Boy, hometown or no, you will be dead to me,” they wrote.
  I swear to god, @sobeys, if you screw up @FarmBoy, hometown or no, you will be dead to me.
  — Shannon M (@zchamu) September 24, 2018People who shop at Farm Boy are passionate, acknowledged Michael Medline,
  
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• NEW: @country1011fm fundraiser for local tornado relief: bit.ly/2OMsawH #ottnews https://t.co/YP8PiwZw3a

  24-09-2018 17:11 via twitter.com
  
  NEW: @country1011fm fundraiser for local tornado relief: bit.ly/2OMsawH #ottnews https://t.co/YP8PiwZw3a
  
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• Coming up at 11:15: @davidreevely joins @_MarkSutcliffe on Hydro One's tricky problem ---- how to turn on the li… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  24-09-2018 17:10 via twitter.com
  Coming up at 11:15: @davidreevely joins @_MarkSutcliffe on Hydro One's tricky problem ----how to turn on the li… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
  
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• Richardson: Losing our power, however briefly, brought unexpected lessons

  24-09-2018 16:41 via ottawacitizen.com
  Like many people, I was forced by Friday’s storm and power outage into a kind of urban dweller’s survival mode. My first priority was to get my wife and son home safely from work. They had biked downtown that morning but by afternoon the sky had turned black, overloaded drains erupted like geysers, and our neighbourhood’s old maple and cedar trees whipped around in the wind and rain as though composed of something far more flexible than wood.
  Safely together again as the late a
  
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• Coming up at 10:30: @_MarkSutcliffe speaks with two eyewitnesses to the devastation in Dunrobin during Friday's… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  24-09-2018 16:25 via twitter.com
  Coming up at 10:30: @_MarkSutcliffe speaks with twoeyewitnesses to the devastation inDunrobin during Friday's… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
  
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• On today's Power Lunch: @SamLapradeCFRE & @DannyKingsbury join @_MarkSutcliffe live in-studio: 📻: 1310 💻:… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  24-09-2018 16:15 via twitter.com
  On today's Power Lunch: @SamLapradeCFRE & @DannyKingsbury join @_MarkSutcliffe live in-studio:📻: 1310 💻:… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
  
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• Wheels fall off transport carrying dangerous goods: bit.ly/2NZ0DuX https://t.co/e7wVseOifS

  24-09-2018 16:00 via twitter.com
  
  Wheels fall off transport carrying dangerous goods: bit.ly/2NZ0DuX https://t.co/e7wVseOifS
  
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• Coming up on the 10 O'Clock Talk: @rick_gibbons, @SyntaxStrategic Jennifer Stewart & @1310Andrew join… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  24-09-2018 15:55 via twitter.com
  Coming up on the 10 O'Clock Talk: @rick_gibbons, @SyntaxStrategic Jennifer Stewart & @1310Andrew join… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
  
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• Coming up at 9:40: @MichaelMaidment joins @_MarkSutcliffe on the @OttawaFoodBank efforts to help tornado victims:… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  24-09-2018 15:35 via twitter.com
  Coming up at 9:40:@MichaelMaidment joins @_MarkSutcliffe on the @OttawaFoodBank efforts to help tornado victims:… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
  
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• NEXT: @HydroOttawa Director of Distribution Operations, Joseph Muglia joins @_MarkSutcliffe with a power update:… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  24-09-2018 15:34 via twitter.com
  NEXT:@HydroOttawa Director of Distribution Operations, Joseph Muglia joins @_MarkSutcliffe with a power update:… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
  
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• Tornado aftermath: Hundreds of elderly residents of Richmond Park Square without food after storm

  24-09-2018 15:10 via ottawacitizen.com
  Hundreds of elderly residents at Richmond Park Square are without food following the dual tornadoes that ripped through the nation’s capital on Friday.
  The facility, which is located at 1275 and 1285 Richmond Road and is made up of two 20-storey towers housing as many as 1,000 people, was hit hard by the city-wide power outages according to the buildings’ superintendent Alisha Lewis. Richmond Park Square, which is operated by Homestead Land Holdings Ltd., has 439 apartment units.
  Lew
  
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• Fire on Old Richmond Road causes $350K damage: bit.ly/2xCHdCs #ottnews https://t.co/Jq0xWVFtgI

  24-09-2018 15:10 via twitter.com
  
  Fire on Old Richmond Road causes $350K damage: bit.ly/2xCHdCs#ottnews https://t.co/Jq0xWVFtgI
  
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• Hundreds of elderly residents of Richmond Park Square without food after storm

  24-09-2018 15:09 via ottawacitizen.com
  Hundreds of elderly residents at Richmond Park Square are without food following the dual tornadoes that ripped through the nation’s capital on Friday.
  The facility, which is located at 1275 and 1285 Richmond Road and is made up of two 20-storey towers housing as many as 1,000 people, was hit hard by the city-wide power outages according to the buildings’ superintendent Alisha Lewis. Richmond Park Square, which is operated by Homestead Land Holdings Ltd., has 439 apartment units.
  Lew
  
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• Coming up at 9:15: @JimWatsonOttawa joins @_MarkSutcliffe with the latest on the aftermath of Friday's #tornadoes… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  24-09-2018 15:00 via twitter.com
  Coming up at 9:15: @JimWatsonOttawa joins @_MarkSutcliffe with the latest on the aftermath of Friday's #tornadoes… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
  
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• Farm Boy stores to be sold to owner of Sobey's grocery chain

  24-09-2018 14:56 via ottawacitizen.com
  Farm Boy, the Ottawa-based grocery chain, is being sold to the owner of Sobey’s.
  The proposed $800 million deal was announced Monday morning by Empire Co. Ltd., Sobey’s parent company.
  However, it’s unclear how much things will change at the popular Ottawa stores known for their fresh produce, locally-sourced products and ready-to-eat prepared foods.
  Farm Boy will be managed separately from Empire’s broader operations, according to a media release from Empire.
  Farm Boy fo
  
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• Tornado aftermath: Ottawans urged to stay home Monday, as power restored to bulk of the region

  24-09-2018 14:45 via ottawacitizen.com
  The Monday morning commute is much lighter than normal thanks to urgent pleas from city officials to stay off the roads and work from home if possible as cleanup continues after two tornadoes swept through the region on Friday.
  Federal government workers in the National Capital Region were being told to work from home Monday and city officials were pleading with all people not to come into work if possible, as the cleanup continued. All schools in Ottawa’s Catholic and public boa
  
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• Old Richmond Road fire causes $350,000 in damage

  24-09-2018 14:05 via ottawacitizen.com
  A fire investigator was dispatched to determine the cause of a blaze that did an estimated $350,000 in damage to a house and displaced one person in the Fallowfield area Sunday evening.
  Multiple 911 calls alerted firefighters to flames at the rear of 5458 Old Richmond Road at 6:46 p.m.
  They arrived to find visible flames and declared a working fire. It was under control by 7:29 p.m.
  The Canadian Red Cross and Salvation Army were helping the resident, reported the fire department, which also
  
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• Cool, dry Monday then risk of rain returns Tuesday

  24-09-2018 13:47 via ottawacitizen.com
  Mixed but dry skies and a high of 16 C are forecast for Monday as the capital continues cleaning up after the storm, but get those tarps ready with rain in the forecast overnight.
  The overnight low is 10 C with increasing cloudiness and a few showers forecast to begin before morning then more showers Tuesday and a high of 18 C.
  Overnight, there’s a 60 per cent chance of showers and a wildly unseasonal low of 18 C.
  Wednesday is cloudy with a 60 per cent chance of showers, a high of 23 C and
  
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• Adam: Tornado aftermath – The chimney's gone, but we're counting our blessings

  24-09-2018 13:21 via ottawacitizen.com
  The tornado that wreaked havoc on Ottawa-Gatineau Friday touched down in my Greenboro neighbourhood, it seems, bearing a grudge against me. As it cut a destructive path through my small condo enclave, sometime after 6 p.m., it took direct aim at the block that houses my unit. There was considerable damage all around: toppled trees all over the streets, on top of roofs and on a car. The place looked like an explosion had gone off, leaving an ugly mess.
  My roof took the brunt of the damage, howeve
  
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• EARLY EDITION: A double agent at the newsroom door

  24-09-2018 12:30 via ottawacitizen.com
  Take a step back in time as we highlight memorable moments in the Ottawa Citizen’s storied past. Today, former Citizen editor and publisher Russell Mills shares the story of a Cold War double agent betrayed by the RCMP.
  —
  The only real spy I’ve ever met didn’t look anything like James Bond.
  One day in 1997, I was working in the publisher’s office at the Ottawa Citizen when my assistant informed me that an elderly man had arrived and insisted on seeing me.
  
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• Adam: Tornado aftermath – The chimney's gone, but we're counting out blessings

  24-09-2018 12:30 via ottawacitizen.com
  The tornado that wreaked havoc on Ottawa-Gatineau Friday touched down in my Greenboro neighbourhood, it seems, bearing a grudge against me. As it cut a destructive path through my small condo enclave, sometime after 6 p.m., it took direct aim at the block that houses my unit. There was considerable damage all around: toppled trees all over the streets, on top of roofs and on a car. The place looked like an explosion had gone off, leaving an ugly mess.
  My roof took the brunt of the damage, howeve
  
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• Second arrest made in Walkley Road hotel homicide: bit.ly/2zpw7ly #Ottnews https://t.co/dJhv0s4YL7

  24-09-2018 11:40 via twitter.com
  
  Second arrest made in Walkley Road hotel homicide: bit.ly/2zpw7ly #Ottnews https://t.co/dJhv0s4YL7
  
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• Ottawa Senators GoFundMe to help with tornado relief effort surpasses $40,000: bit.ly/2NCgT5o #ottnews https://t.co/NSE2KKKevH

  24-09-2018 11:26 via twitter.com
  
  Ottawa Senators GoFundMe to help with tornado relief effort surpasses $40,000: bit.ly/2NCgT5o #ottnews https://t.co/NSE2KKKevH
  
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• Residents urged to stay off the roads today: bit.ly/2MYa0Gl #ottnews #otttraffic https://t.co/3p8msdm7pp

  24-09-2018 11:10 via twitter.com
  
  Residents urged to stay off the roads today: bit.ly/2MYa0Gl #ottnews #otttraffic https://t.co/3p8msdm7pp
  
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• Ottawa English schools, board offices, closed Monday: bit.ly/2DpEEZP #ottnews https://t.co/5blsV7sN67

  24-09-2018 11:00 via twitter.com
  
  Ottawa English schools, board offices, closed Monday: bit.ly/2DpEEZP #ottnews https://t.co/5blsV7sN67
  
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