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Windsor twister ripped these home apart but auto seems undamaged
Windsor twister ripped these home apart but auto seems undamaged

Windsor twister ripped these home apart but auto seems undamaged

Date6/19/1946
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Original Toronto Star caption: Windsor twister ripped these home apart but auto seems undamaged
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ProvenanceFrom the Toronto Star Archives
CollectionToronto Star Photograph Archive
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Copyright HolderToronto Star (Firm)
Call Number / Accession NumberTSPA_0015935F
Path of destruction: A light plane (top) is bowled over at Jamaica's Kingston Airport, sailboats are swamped and grounded at Montego Bay, and vacation cabins at Runaway Bay are ripped apart
Path of destruction: A light plane (top) is bowled over at Jamaica's Kingston Airport, sailboats are swamped and grounded at Montego Bay, and vacation cabins at Runaway Bay are ripped apart
9/26/1988
Path of destruction: A light plane (top) is bowled over at Jamaica's Kingston Airport, sailboats are swamped and grounded at Montego Bay, and vacation cabins at Runaway Bay are ripped apart
Path of destruction: A light plane (top) is bowled over at Jamaica's Kingston Airport, sailboats are swamped and grounded at Montego Bay, and vacation cabins at Runaway Bay are ripped apart
9/26/1988
Path of destructions: A light plane (top) is bowled over at Jamaica's Kingston Airport, sailboats are swamped and grounded at Montego Bay, and vacation cabins at Runaway Bay are ripped apart
Path of destructions: A light plane (top) is bowled over at Jamaica's Kingston Airport, sailboats are swamped and grounded at Montego Bay, and vacation cabins at Runaway Bay are ripped apart
9/26/1988
The windsor curling rink in which eight persons were killed and eleven injured had the roof ripped off and a wall demolished by a freak tornado. Concr(...)
The windsor curling rink in which eight persons were killed and eleven injured had the roof ripped off and a wall demolished by a freak tornado. Concr(...)
4/3/1974
Toronto Area was hit last night by a 100-mile-an-hour twister that was responsible for one deathe and caused the worst storm damage since Hurricane Ha(...)
Toronto Area was hit last night by a 100-mile-an-hour twister that was responsible for one deathe and caused the worst storm damage since Hurricane Ha(...)
8/14/1985
Baby twister, seen from Queen Elizabeth overpass and highway 27
Baby twister, seen from Queen Elizabeth overpass and highway 27
8/21/1958
Twister aftermath
Twister aftermath
6/17/1986
Twister in Mississauga? Wayne McAlpine (right) inspects his damaged van which was hit by a falling tree on Ingersoil Court in Mississauga. Police beli(...)
Twister in Mississauga? Wayne McAlpine (right) inspects his damaged van which was hit by a falling tree on Ingersoil Court in Mississauga. Police beli(...)
9/30/1986
What's the use? That seems to be the attitude of one frustrated driver, standing on the roof of his car, which was only one of many stranded eastbound(...)
What's the use? That seems to be the attitude of one frustrated driver, standing on the roof of his car, which was only one of many stranded eastbound(...)
3/4/1985
Hydro crews and firefighters, right, clean up roofing materials ripped off a Scarborough nursing home
Hydro crews and firefighters, right, clean up roofing materials ripped off a Scarborough nursing home
3/28/1991
Debris cleanup: Emergency workers survey the damage after last night's storm, which ripped some aluminum from the roof of a nursing home
Debris cleanup: Emergency workers survey the damage after last night's storm, which ripped some aluminum from the roof of a nursing home
3/28/1991
Homes in Woodstock, some with roofs and walls sheared off, stand as mute testimony to storm, which ripped through Oxford County Tuesday night
Homes in Woodstock, some with roofs and walls sheared off, stand as mute testimony to storm, which ripped through Oxford County Tuesday night
8/8/1979