Ferocious storm leaves Kerrobert in cleanup mode and without power
Between 12:30 am and 1:00 am on Tuesday morning, Kerrobert was hit with near 100 km/hour winds as part of a severe thunderstorm. The damage of this event caused some heavy damage throughout our town.
We had multiple trees uprooted, large branches broken, some of which came down onto buildings and homes. We had multiple holiday campers flipped over at the Wild Goose Campground. Even though a couple of the campers had people inside, miraculously nobody was seriously injured. We had a grain bin blow into our cemetery. We had smaller tree branches scattered throughout every street and alley.
PHOTOS BY ANNIE DUNCAN, click for larger images
There are a great number of power lines that broke south of Kerrobert on highway 21 towards Kindersley. One local business had the roof blow off their industrial building. It was a scary event to be sure, but we will rise to the occasion and venture ahead.
Our Town staff started the cleanup right away with cutting broken branches and hauling away debris.
We had asked residents to bring their debris to the front street or back alley and our crews will come around to pick up and haul to our landfill. Many residents also stepped up with trucks, trailers and chainsaws to help. Our landfill will stay open for extended hours in order to help with the cleanup. It is great to see our community come together as it has and as it always does. The cleanup will take a while, but with everyone pitching in, we will have things cleaned up in no time. I want to thank Sask Power for all their hard work restoring power, and I want to thank Baker Hughes and our local Kinsmen that put on a free barbeque for the community as we were without power all-day Tuesday. It is greatly appreciated.
I also want to send a huge thank you to everyone in our community that stepped up to assist with the cleanup. This is a big mess and will require many sets of hands to pitch in to clean it up, and it never surprises me at how the community comes together to help each other out in times like this.
Mayor Wayne Mock - Kerrobert