It feels like it's been moving the past 5 or so years. I'm in Quebec and we used to get an odd tornado every 5 to 10 years. Now it's been 1 or 2 every year in may-june-july. Our homes are sturdier than down south, but I don't think my province or Toronto will give a F and be prepared for tornadoes until they get hit with a deadly tornado and face the consequences of not being prepared and safety. People out west know the signs of a tornado and get ready, but east coast doesn't or doesn't care and it's concerning.

When we once had an alert in june 2022 for a tornado warning (the ingredients are in place, same cell dropped another tornado in Ontario) and I spotted a funnel right outside my workplaces's window. I panic as its forming. Its inching down and coming towards us. my bf who works with me just goes to the window, shrugs and goes back to working at his desk as if its a normal storm. Even if it was coming towards us and I'm begging him to GTFO into the middle of the building with me that's far away from the walls or windows.

Thankfully didn't touch down near us, but my bf rightfully got a slap to the back of his head for ignoring me once he realized I was being serious, very much scared and showed him the photo I took of it and other funnel clouds and that one did drop north of us (that spawned from that funnel cloud) that he had a "oh, durrr" moment. 🤦‍♂️

> That make up the traditional tornado alley and then a 4th one across the rust belt south of the great lakes to the appalachians.

There is definitely one running into the South side of the Great Lakes in Michigan that people gotta pay more attention to on both the USA side and Canadian sides. With the east coast being plagued with more hot and humid summers as of late and the Great Lakes feeding the humidity, the rust belt and the St Laurence corridor in Canada is starting to get spicy. I live in Canada but when Michigan gets hit by a tornado, we start paying attention as it means that we're in for some shit within 3-6 hours as anything that hits near Detroit, will absolutely come up the St Laurence corridor and potentially affect approx. 56% of Canada's total population within 6-10 hours.

For example: The same storm system that dropped a tornado in Michigan last May that was EF2-EF3 later on dumped the strongest and most violent derecho we'd ever seen in Canada that killed 20+ people across Ontario and Quebec.

Im definitely keeping an eye to the skies this summer again as I can't trust the Canadian weather alert system. Its horrible compared to the NWS' alerts and with fast moving storms like that derecho, some only had a 2 min warning to GTFO inside and it wasn't enough along with the weather channels not knowing wtf was happening when you can clearly see its a Derecho on the doppler radars...

My hate for Trudeau was 100% caused by me listening to him blabber on. I regret voting for him as he's done nothing for us but goes to the moon and back for other countries instead of helping our failing healthcare infrastructure or making initiatives on building new homes that we should of been building since the 1980s.

People are getting fed up with Trudeau not because they're right wing, but because he's useless and all about his good image and PR than Canadians. He's all talk but no work to show for it.

We have a lot of issues right now in our country that should be talked about and spoken about, but Trudeau dodges every single question and/or calls you a racist when you bring up important problems like this (CCP interference in elections and politics) as talking about such an issue could implicate him and his party with some dirty laundry.

Hence why a lot of Canadians are paying attention as this is the CSIS talking and they gave this information to a trusted journalist who broke the news years ago about casinos in BC and them laundering money for the CCP.

Short term rentals in Montreal = AirBnBs. The Old Port where this fire happened is a major tourist spot.

Guy who owns the building is a slumlord and this building was inadequate in fire safety (the fire safety escape ladders didn't work/were falling apart which lead to some injuries.) for such a prestigious part of Montreal. The amount of revenue this guy made should of went to retrofitting that shithole. Locals around knew the place was pretty run down so seeing it light up like a tinderbox and sadly having ppl die was inevitable.

IDK why people are acting as if this is a bad thing. We're all (mostly) vaccinated and this current variant has already spread in our own countries for the past few months. It's just China's turn with this very rapidly spreading variant.

We dealt with it. Now it's their turn.

People will go out for their jobs and to the store as they think it's "not that bad" but it is. And it got worse.

Happens with floods, hurricanes...it's sad 😔 with snowstorms like this it's worse as no plows= walls of snow blowing about and nobody can move. So people are trapped in their cars in subzero temperatures and keep the car on to stay warm...but die due to carbon monoxide poisoning as they don't clear the tailpipe of the snow. Lots of people trapped in their cars died this way.

I stand corrected, it's 92 inches. But still a massive amount of snow! https://twitter.com/NWSBUFFALO/status/1607150199536771074

With our current weather forcasts we knew it was gonna be a nasty snow storm due to the lake effect (I'm in Montreal. More north-east. We got freezing rain and then snow after and didn't get the lake effect whiteouts) but it turned from a "this is a big blizzard" to "oh fuck this is real" when the wind kicked up.

I'm just thankful I have a fireplace in case I ever do lose power so I could stay warm and cook. My family learned after we dealt with the 1998 ice storm here in Montreal. It crippled our power grid and we were out of power for 3+ weeks.

Now we refuse to buy a home without a wood burning fireplace/stove as we don't wanna freeze like that again.

For people who don't understand how bad this storm was: Buffalo receives on average 96.4" of snow total for the winter season.

This weekend alone Buffalo got 94".

We all knew the storm was gonna be bad, and change (especially when it tracked up to Canada, where im at) But this storm rapidly changed from "wow it's heckin windy" to "I can't see 1ft from my face, it dropped from 38f to sub-zero in under 4 hours, the snow wont stop AND it's STILL WINDY--THERE GOES MY ROOF SHINGLES" all within friday. I was watching a storm chaser on Friday over in Fort Erie and he said it was horrible, dangerous and in some areas the snow was blowing and accumulating so fast, some snow drifts were +6ft tall in just 4 hours. It's mindboggling.

Sadly, the more they dig, the more bodies they're gonna find, as well as doing neighbourhood safety checks on the elderly. They usually die first in storms like this due to no power, no heat, and nobody checking on them. So they die to the cold or C02 poisoning because they can't clear their furnace piping, bad fireplaces, bad ventilation on generators...etc.

If you got elderly neighbors or family and you got a heat source/power; help them.