The South Bayview Bulldog

In this digital age, You Tube knows all and this is a very good brief edit of lightning hitting the CN tower. There are other videos but this is the best. Hope you survived that thunder crasher okay. There do not appear to be any reports of serious damage around South Bayview land.

The Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation has predicted that house prices will remain stable this year. The CMHC says there will not be a correction in price this year, and that prices will continue to rise. Canadian Real Estate.

The legendary powerhouse who created and sold the Apple computer and all the dazzling array of subsequent products is resigning immediately from the presidency of the firm. Story at Rehak/Stuebing: Mostly Media

The Tornado Watch reads: A line of thunderstorms is expected to develop over Lake Huron then track rapidly eastward across Southern Ontario late this afternoon and this evening. The threat for storms will begin in areas near Lake Huron between 4:00 PM and 5:00 PM then move eastward to reach a line from Eastern Lake Erie through the Golden Horseshoe to the upper Ottawa Valley by 8:00 PM. Some of these storms will have the potential to be severe with large hail, damaging winds, and torrential downpours. There will also be the potential for isolated tornadoes. This is an alert to the potential development of severe thunderstorms capable of producing tornadoes. Monitor weather conditions and listen for updated bulletins. Here.

Many have been wondering what happened to The Amazing Vanishing Sidewalk Construction. The workers were here in a passion a week and a half ago, and construction was to begin immediately. Then, nothing. The South Bayview Bulldog has been in touch and learns that there are some adjustments being made to fit new trees into the sidewalk when the concrete boxes are gone. We’re not laying money on it, but work is supposed to begin by next week. What does this do to the schedule which had the work finished by somewhere near the middle of September? We’re not sure.

Some local residents say they felt swaying from the earthquake that hit the State of Virginia and Washington D.C. this afternoon. Quakes are not unknown to Toronto which is said to sit close to a seldom disturbed fault under Lake Ontario. On June 10 of this year residents reported a very clear tremor on the Cat’s Eye pedestrian bridge in the Moore Park area. Last year, there was a fairly noticeable quake in Toronto. In none of these cases was there any damage. CP24.

You may well have seen this video on television. The opportunity to review it again really underlines the force of the tornado and high winds that struck Goderich. Many will recall this pretty town on Lake Huron for its unusual “spoke wheel” layout, with streets radiating out from a central square. On the shore, century homes built by Americans who summered there in the 19th century overlook the lake. Many of these were seriously damaged.