Once rain moved out, winds moved in across southern Ontario, sending trees, hydro lines and even a tractor-trailer to the ground.
As of Monday evening, a wind warning remained in effect for all of southern Ontario, with gusts of up to 100 km/h expected in some areas.
At one point during the late afternoon, a gust of 102 km/h was recorded in Kitchener – the highest anywhere in the province up to that point.
The winds were strong enough to topple trees across Waterloo Region, including a large spruce on McGarry Drive in Kitchener which fell into a house.
The owner of the house was home at the time, and felt the house shake, but everybody came out of it OK.
Part of the home’s roof were ripped off by the tree.
Wind may also be to blame for multiple power outages.
Kitchener-Wilmot Hydro reports that power went out in the Grand River Hospital and Cherry Hill neighbourhoods around 4 p.m., and likely wouldn’t be restored until 7 p.m. or so.
A larger outage was reported in the Lancaster and Queen area, affecting more than 2,000 people, while Guelph Hydro reported a tree on a line at Malvern and Arkell.
Hydro One’s live outage map reported dozens of outages in rural areas of the province.
South of Ingersoll, Plank Line was closed between Salford and McBeth roads due to an empty tractor-trailer blowing over.
No injuries were reported.
Winds were expected to die down during the overnight hours.
