If the sun was there Thursday in Montreal, Dame Nature was unleashed in the northwest of the metropolis, causing many damage and power outages.
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The tornadoes of tornadoes Pierre-Marc Doucet and Jolyane Limoges followed the stormy cell which came from the Outaouais towards the Laurentians when lightning struck very close to their car around Fall-Saint-Philippe, in the Laurentians.
“I heard a big” bang “and saw the flash at the same time hit the ground, it was exhausting,” said Journal Ferme-Neuve resident.
Pierre-Marc Doucet
With his spouse member of the group Xtrem Chase Québec – Storm huntersit has been traveling the province and the United States for more than 12 years in search of the most extreme weather phenomena.
“Everything was in place for at least two possible tornadoes in Quebec this morning but the probabilities decreased as the day advanced,” he explains.
He still continued his tour and the storm he crossed made him live a lot of emotion. “This is the first time that I have seen a flash so close,” he says.
When the couple arrived in Fall-Saint-Philippe, in the afternoon, they were among the first witnesses of a micro-mainly which did damage over a hundred trees.
Pierre-Marc Doucet
They weren’t at the end of their sentence because the winds swept through Neuve a few minutes later and residents saw hailstones from the size of golf balls fall on their land and trees are overturned.
At the height of the storm, more than 50,000 households were deprived of electricity.
