A Newfoundlander and her family are lucky to have escaped injury after being caught in a F1 category tornado that roared through the Murray Doell Campground in Meadow Lake Provincial Park in Saskatchewan.
Mary Rideout’s daughter Roxanne is working in Saskatchewan and decided to go camping over the weekend. Mary says little did her daughter know the devastation she would encounter.
Mary says her daughter told her they were sitting at a picnic table when they noticed an approaching thunderstorm. Then the hail came, and they got inside their camper.
She says there was little warning, and they didn’t even have time to shut the windows before they had to get under the table and the trees started falling. The storm lasted about 20 minutes.
Mary says they were lucky they didn’t get in their truck for safety.
One tree went right through the windshield, while another fell on the truck and smashed the cab.
She says her daughter is pretty shaken up, but otherwise okay.
Here’s a few pics from Murray Doell campground after the tornado.
Meadow lake Provincial Park park Saskatchewan. June 29/2019 pic.twitter.com/jvaVMdWy9N— mooseman (@moosehorn71) July 1, 2019