Most of the damage occurred in Mountain View County, between the town of Didsbury and Carstairs, about 70 kilometres north of Calgary
The Carstairs Fire Department rescued one woman who was trapped in her basement as her home was torn down above her, RCMP Corporal Gina Slaney said in a news release. She suffered minor injuries.
While tornadoes are common in Alberta, this was the most severe one in the province that Marianna Greenhough, a meteorologist with Environment and Climate Change Canada , has seen in the 18 years she has been working. Nearing lunchtime, he saw a storm forming that suddenly “exploded in growth and intensity. … It was an incredibly dirty trail of a dirt sucker tornado.” He said he saw cattle, trees and debris being blended into the funnel.The town of Didsbury is leading the cleanup of the disaster’s aftermath, according to Hunter Baril, press secretary for Alberta’s Minister of Public Safety and Emergency Services, but the province is “always on standby to step in, if needed.
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