Deadly thunderstorms whipped through Ontario Saturday

Peel Regional Police said a woman in her 70s has died after being struck by a falling tree this afternoon. While Ontario Provincial Police West Region confirmed that a tree fell on a camping trailer at Pinehurst Lake Conservation Area in between Kitchener and Brantford. One person was pronounced dead in hospital while two others were injured. More.

Toronto Hydro Outage Map, experiencing an outage. May 21, 2022

Locally there was a lot of debris in the road. Toronto Hydro’s outage map website crashed but was later restored, albeit without any outage information. Pleas for assistance posted to Twitter suggest localized outages were experienced throughout the GTA.

McRae Drive, May 21, 2022 /Bulldog Photo

The Bulldog observed a cornucopia of branches of all sizes littering the lawns of just about every property on Bessborough Drive between Millwood Road and Sharron Drive. One of the largest was near Millwood, where a giant trunk had split. McRae was closed between Millwood and Hanna due to another downed tree. Traffic lights on Bayview were out north of Lawrence, and Bayview Village Association reported outages affecting elevators and garage doors.

Further north, Uxbridge has declared a State of Emergency with widespread damage reported. Residents of Whitchurch-Stouffville are also reporting some severe damage. Looking east to Ottawa, the videos and photos from Ottawa are shocking. The storm was fast and furious leaving a lot of damage in its path.