A small tornado that tore through the Brent and Kim Varty farmyard made a sound that was “horrendous” according to one of the people in the house at the time.

The freak weather hit Sunday afternoon around 2:30 p.m. on August 25 when only Kim and her 17 year old daughter were home.

“My biggest thought was to get to the basement with my daughter Melissa . . . I thought it was going to suck us out” says Kim who added that she also believed that the high winds were going to “move the house off.”

The daughter, who was in a different part of the house thought someone was in the house damaging things on purpose when the noise began. Kim then yelled “it’s a tornado.”

Before Kim got in the basement she looked outside and saw a smashed calf shelter and toys “going around outside the window . . . from here to China.”

The house was mainly intact other than some slight damage to siding (including a nearby garage), while two screen doors were ripped out of their frames. Other damage was inflicted when the calf shelter was destroyed and small unknown articles hit a vehicle parked nearby the house, a trampoline was ripped up and the frame bent even though huge spikes had anchored it. A barbecue was tossed around a deck and wound up on the lawn. Other deck furniture was pushed by the high winds yet an adjacent small plastic table supporting a plant in a glass bowl on the deck remained up right and inexplicably intact while only one of its four plastic legs was permanently twisted.

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The first day of school brought St. Thomas Aquinas School principal Jean McClean out onto the sidewalk to greet students as they stepped off of this bus. And the girl in the dress was proud in turn to take a moment to apparently show off her new backpack. While almost all other students across the area returned to classes on Tuesday, Provost Public School classes did not open for students because of construction disruptions. School begins for PPS students on September 9 with Kindergarten to Grade 5 at the curling rink. Grade 5/6 to Grade 9 will be at PPS while Grade 10 to Grade 12 will be at the CTS Center.