Storm sends flying canoe into woman’s bedroom: ‘It came through everything’
ST. JOHN’S, N.L. — A Newfoundland woman says she’s lucky to be alive after a canoe came through the side of her house during the weekend windstorm that battered much of the province and left many without power through Monday.
“The wind picked it up and just brought it right in through the side of my house. Right through the siding, Gyprock, insulation. It cracked off my headboard. I was in bed at the time. It came through everything,” said Theresa Power, an office worker from Freshwater, N.L., an hour’s drive northwest of St. John’s.
“If the headboard wasn’t there, I would have got hit in the head with the boat. The headboard was cracked in three pieces, and the top part of it ended up … down on the end of the bed.”
The canoe, which belonged to an unknown neighbour, was carried aloft at about 11:30 a.m. Saturday by hurricane-like winds during a storm that left a trail of damage through a wide swath of the province, with gusts of between 140 km/h and 160 km/h.