More photos from the Alberta wind

You may remember my August 20 blog entry showing photos of bales that were blown for miles in Alberta. The photos are making the email rounds (Lee Hart posted them yesterday, not realizing that I had posted them earlier) but they're actually from last year. Many of you emailed to let me know, so thank you.

Scott Nelson, whose Bow Island farm was in the heart of the storm, sent more photos of damage in his area. Scott says wind speeds were 240 km/h, and the path of destruction was about five miles wide and something like 150 to 200 km long.

The wind is called a "plow wind," which has the force of a tornado but works in a straight line. "It did millions of dollars in damage," he says. Three hundred pivots were blown over and thousands of grain bins were demolished. "It took grain bins that were half full of wheat, blew the bin away and left the wheat." It destroyed the last remaining wooden elevator in the area.

The house is a neighbour's about six miles from Scott's place.

Amazing weather photos from 2009

With big rains and baseball sizes hail being themes from the past week or so across the Prairies, maybe you have some weather photos from 2009 that you'd like to share. Email them to me and I'll share them.