SUPERCELL

O.K. so that's what the weather guys were calling it. Around 8 last night, I decided to go to Michael's to pick up a few scrapbooking items. I didn't want to go alone so I got my mom and Emma-Rose to come with. We had been expecting thunderstorms all day because of the extreme heat from the past few days. Anyhow, we went things were fine. We came out of the store and things weren't so fine. Imagine with me, if you please, you walk out of a store at dusk. Part of the sky looks like dusk (to the south--in back of us) and to the north is a thick jet black sky, as well as sheet of flying dust, dirt and garbage flying coming at you. That's what we came out of the store to. We get to van, low and behold we broke the door, can't get it to close. The wind is intensifying around us. I finally get the door fixed and start thinking, if this is a tornodo (or anything like it) we shouldn't be driving. We drive across the parking lot to McDonald's. My mom calls my dad to get him to check the weather and determine if we should drive home. He says the worse has yet to hit, so come home. We leave the McDonald's with an upset girl (who didn't get any french fries). We were almost home when the worst started to hit. Anyhow, praying for safety the whole way home, we did make it safely. Watching the weather network, we realized how bad it really was. Here's an article from Citytv.com it sums up what was going on in southern ontario last night:

Series Of Storms And Possible Twisters Tear Through Ontario
Wednesday August 2, 2006
Ontario's heat wave finally broke with a frightening display of nature's fury on Wednesday night.
A wall of thunderstorms raced across southern Ontario producing lightning, hail, damaging winds and potentially a series of tornadoes.
In the end, 150,000 people in the province were without electricity.
The line of violent weather stretched from Goderich to Ottawa with nearly continuous lightning and wind gusts of up to 120 kilometres an hour. Toronto escaped the worst, but there were reports of scattered outages after trees took out power lines in various parts of the town. Hydro crews were working on problems at Kipling and Finch and Jane and Lawrence, along with Harboroufront. All were left in darkness by the disturbance.
In Barrie, an uprooted tree fell onto a house.
"It was like a tornado or hurricane," said Barrie resident Gordon Stanich. "It was just unbelievable. I was down by the water because I'd run down for the boat and the boat was going all over the place."
At one point there were distress calls from ten sailboats in Georgian Bay, and in Eastern Ontario there were widespread tornado warnings with possible touchdowns near Bancroft and Smith Falls.
A potential microburst, if not a tornado, may have touched down in the Newmarket area, and in Renfrew near Ottawa, a Home Depot reportedly had its roof collapse.
What's believed to be a twister was seen by a weather spotter near Morriston, Ont. at the intersection of Highway 6 and the 401 during the afternoon. It was accompanied by heavy rain but didn't do much damage before it moved out over Lake Ontario.
Environment Canada called it a "very high impact severe weather situation" and advised anyone caught outside during the height of the storm to take cover.
The warning covered all areas of the G.T.A., including Toronto, Peel, Durham, York and beyond.

A few spots were also flooded by the heavy downpours, which dropped walls of water in just a few minutes.

The disturbance was caused by a cold front that swept in, replacing the hot, sticky and smoggy air that has been baking much of the province all week.

Forecasters say Thursday's weather will be more comfortable with a lot less humidity and highs in the mid 20s.