Residents near Bancroft are dealing with the impacts, after a possible downburst, or tornado, touched down in the area this afternoon.
We spoke with resident Dan Wilson who said he was at his home in Birds Creek when the weather came up suddenly.
“I was just watching TV and I can see the neighbors house out to window… And one minute it was nice and sunny, next minute it started to rain. And then it got a little worse. And then all of a sudden it was ‘well, I can’t see the neighbors house no more.’ And then I grabbed my wife and the dogs and I said ‘I think we better go to the basement’.. And by the time we got to the basement stairs to go down, the trees were dropped beside the house, both sides, and you couldn’t see 2 feet outside the windows of the house.”
When we spoke with Wilson at 6:30 p.m. Tuesday he said that the power was out at the time, and the road had been closed, with trees across, it but had since re-opened.
He said he doesn’t know for sure what the cause of the damage was.
“I don’t know if it was a tornado or a downburst… I’ve probably got 100 trees pushed down flat to the ground on my one acre lot. I’ve got 2 acres…one acre is a bush and I no longer have a bush”
Wilson said that all in his family were safe and uninjured.
