Alberta Emergency Alert said violent storm was tracking at 40 km/h prior to striking the town
It then became clear to the man that homes had been in the twister’s path just moments before.
His camera then pans to farmsteads on both sides of the Hwy. 2a surrounded by shredded and toppled trees, downed power lines, flapping debris and wrecked outbuildings.The person shooting the video then calls out for survivors but hears nothing back, just moments before emergency crews arrive. Sports journalist Eric Francis was heading north on the QE II Hwy. just after 2:30 p.m. when he noticed dozens of vehicles halted and pulled over to the side of the road between Carstairs and Didsbury.Article content
“Stuff was hitting my windshield, almost like ash on my windshield but there was no wind…we were just sitting ducks there.”But he said the storm packing the tornado then moved away from them eastwards on the east side of the highway.Carstairs resident Cheryl Beck said she was travelling home from Olds when they saw the tornado and headed west to avoid it.“Then we drove through the touchdown site – it was pretty bad,” said Beck, adding two farms on the either side of Hwy. 2a had been ravaged.
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