"The cyclone claimed twenty-eight lives and was the worst in Canadian history in terms of deaths. An eternity. It was approximately 150 metres (490 ft) wide. Then I heard the shattering, tinkling of glass breaking and knew my living room window had blown in. It was a moment of complete, utter blackness. With regularity I kept checking my boys to assure myself they were fine, however I was incapable of sitting still. As we sat sipping coffee and chattering, little did we know that by mid-afternoon we would all need builders, and that it would be a long time before life was normal for us again once this day was over. Around 500 buildings were destroyed or damaged. Let the storm cease, Lord! Just then the lights went off. Do you have a specific request? There was an intense force from behind, and we were screaming. She even claimed to have seen the funnel! I knew we were screaming because far away I felt a dim echo of sound vibrating in my throat, but I couldn’t hear anything but that massive roar. I don’t know when I knew it had been a tornado but by then I understood. And it will be with me forever. Give us a call 860.688.3813 or email Sue Banks was one of the Poquonock residents at home with her children that afternoon. I would recall the moment later. We were wedged underneath my butcher-bloc kitchen table top. CTV Regina Published Monday, July 15, 2013 11:57AM CST Last Updated Tuesday, July 16, 2013 1:01PM CST SHARE Environment Canada has confirmed three tornadoes touched down in Saskatchewan on Monday. I had visions of growing old in this house. Debris of all that was left of some houses in the Colonial Village neighborhood of Poquonock. I told myself the thought was silly and dismissed it. I dropped Candy off at her little yellow ranch house and parked my car in my own driveway. I saw Marilyn jumping off the back of my house, a full story off the ground at that point. Regina Theatre advertisement: "Benefit Performance by the Distinguished Comedienne Henrietta Crosman". There are many ways to contribute to our organization, help us support our mission. The Martin house, directly across from mine was still there, but to the left nothing remained of the Pihel house nor to any others in the cul-de-sac. [1] The tornado's wind velocity has been estimated at 400 kilometres per hour (250 mph),[2] though this conflicts with the F4 Fujita scale estimate based on reports of damage and historical photographs. I was sure that leg was breaking. One … More than 20 vintage aircraft were completely destroyed, with many more damaged. Marilyn said she had to go too but her daughter Karen could stay until 5 PM We stood at the door to my back deck. You can hear more of Sue’s story, along with many others, at our screening of the documentary Windsor Phoenix: Remembering the 1979 Tornado, produced by WIN-TV and supported by Windsor Historical Society, Thursday, October 3, 2019, 7-9 PM at Poquonock School. Had he not done so, he would have been caught outside when nature came barreling down our street. Image by Windsor Locks Fire Department. Three people were killed, 143 hospitalized and 350 others were treated in emergency rooms. [3] Damage from downburst winds was reported across the Connecticut River in Enfield. The novel Euphoria by Connie Gault won the 2009 Saskatchewan Book Award for Fiction and prominently features the Regina Cyclone. The museum's hangar was also rendered unusable. The Windsor Locks, Connecticut tornado struck the towns of Windsor, Windsor Locks, and Suffield, Connecticut, and Feeding Hills, Massachusetts, on Wednesday, October 3, 1979.The short-lived but intense tornado struck without warning and caused three deaths and 500 injuries.. The twister destroyed 400 houses,100 businesses and caused $2 million in damages. I heard them crying but did not acknowledge it until Marilyn returned a few seconds later with Karen in tow. Three people were killed, 143 hospitalized and 350 others were treated in emergency rooms. We’d bought our seven-room raised ranch just 2 ½ years before and were delighted with it. [15], Over the years, some historians have mistakenly placed Karloff as a member of Crosman's company or as a member of the vaudevillian Albini-Avolos Company, which was a third theatrical troupe in Regina at the time of the 1912 tornado. Little bodies reached us, but we could no longer see enough to tell how many came and which ones they were! The tornado formed 18 km south of the city and was roughly 150 metres wide by the time it reached Regina. We watched as my redwood umbrella table listed off the deck in the wind, and that’s when I felt my ears pop. When I asked her where she was going, she said she had to find her missing daughter Karen. In seconds, the sound of crinkling glass was overpowered by a roar – a deafening roar so loud it was akin to the absence of hearing. 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