NEW: Eastern Ontario residents pleading for help as cleanup continues from a tornado ottnews
As residents continue to pick up the pieces left behind by last Sunday's tornado in the Tweed, Ont. area, one family is pleading for help, as the clean up could take months.
Their home was right in the middle of the tornado's path, with their 68-acre property sustaining substantial tree damage. The mature forest below, levelled. Luckily, their house was spared, with only a few broken windows and missing shingles. The insurance company deeming it structurally sound."We do have a house and we are luckier than some because some people did lose their homes here," Young said." does not cover property damage, no. We're on our own for all of our sheds and our shop and any of the trees down."
"What do we do? Who do we contact? What's the plan?" she questioned."We don't know what to really do and we are just kind of waiting to hear what's going on and being patient with it." "Wherever I can help, I will and, it's just a sick feeling in your stomach to see this mess, but anyway we'll get through it."
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