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MIKAELA MACKENZIE \/ FREE PRESS<\/p>\n
Storm damage in Whyte Ridge on Tuesday. Roofs throughout the neighbourhood had shingles ripped off and thrown into the street.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe can definitely see a line of damage,\u201d Hanesiak said. \u201cSo, just based on reports of the linear damage path that\u2019s actually occurred, and that it was very localized, it\u2019s definitely a small tornado.\u201d<\/p>\n
Roofs throughout the neighbourhood had shingles ripped off and thrown into the street. Large trees were uprooted and branches were scattered on the road.<\/p>\n
A group of trees that had fallen over were blocking nearby Columbia Drive to motorists.<\/p>\n
At least one other home on Tolcross had its roof ripped off. A woman who was home at the time, who declined to give her name, was in the garage smoking a cigarette when the storm hit.<\/p>\n
\u201c(The rain) just started coming down, like pouring. And then the roof just started to go,\u201d she said. \u201cI couldn\u2019t believe it.\u201d<\/p>\n
Hanesiak works with the Northern Tornadoes Project to assess and rate storms. His crew was in Rossburn Tuesday, where a tornado destroyed two homes Sunday evening. <\/p>\n
Environment Canada recorded 27 millimetres of rain between Monday morning and Tuesday at 5 a.m. in Winnipeg. No wind speeds were published as of Tuesday morning.<\/p>\n
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Coun. Janice Lukes (Waverley West) woke to many messages and photos of the storm on her phone. She told reporters she\u2019s notified the city\u2019s forestry department about the fallen trees.<\/p>\n
\u201cLast night at my house, I\u2019ve never heard the wind and seen the wind so intense. It was actually scary,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n
Lukes said the provincial and federal governments need to increase their disaster response budgets in light of increasingly severe weather patterns in Manitoba.<\/p>\n
\u2014 with files from Joyanne Pursaga<\/p>\n
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Nicole Buffie Nicole Buffie is a reporter for the Free Press city desk. Born and bred in Winnipeg, Nicole graduated from Red River College\u2019s Creative Communications program in 2020 and worked as a reporter throughout Manitoba before joining the Free Press newsroom as a multimedia producer in 2023. Read more about Nicole<\/a>.<\/p>\n Every piece of reporting Nicole produces is reviewed by an editing team before it is posted online or published in print \u2014 part of the Free Press\u2018s tradition, since 1872, of producing reliable independent journalism. Read more about Free Press\u2019s history and mandate<\/a>, and learn how our newsroom operates<\/a>.<\/p>\n
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