The 100-foot-long tarp that formed the roof of the coverall went flying past. There was a deluge of rain and the wind was strong enough to move the truck up and down as though trying to lift it off the ground. “We looked behind us and we saw a big cloud of dust,” Matt said. Matt, Lianne and their son, Colton, 3, and daughter, Rielly, 1 1/2, all got into Matt’s truck.
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Matt decided to go to the farm to get the generator started in time for milking, which starts at 4 p.m. Matt’s father, John, who lives about a kilometre away on the home farm, called to say the power was out. Some roofs in her ward are still covered by tarps, she said. She points out that some residents in the urban parts of the city are also still struggling to get insurance payments to fund repairs and debris removal.
The formula does not work,” said Gloucester-Southgate Coun. (A disaster) can affect one area and another not at all. In this file photo from May, 2022, James Campbell, owner of Campbell Farms in White Lake, surveys damage to a barn, built in 1909, that was being used as a wedding and event venue. Although the city and Hydro Ottawa have projected they will spend about $50 million on derecho recovery by the end of the year, the city’s tax base is simply too large to qualify for aid. The M unicipal Disaster Recovery Assistance (MDRA) program only applies when there has been an extraordinary municipal response and recovery costs of at least three per cent of a municipality’s own-purpose taxation. Meanwhile, there’s another wrinkle for municipalities looking to access provincial aid. He has not seen any insurance money or even an estimate for what it will cost to repair the barn that houses 30 cows and 27 calves. There are big holes in the ground, like graves,” said Watson.ĭavid Spence said he and his neighbours spent all summer cleaning up nails, boards and chunks of metal roofing from their pastures so cattle wouldn’t be injured. “It will be 100 years before it comes back. The storm devastated almost all of the older maple trees.
Watson’s family has lived in the area for some 200 years, and tapped the maples in the sugar bush for generations. “It picked up one shed and put it in the field at the other side of the road. I have never heard anything like it before,” he said.
Sarsfield farmer Wendell Watson said the derecho destroyed two large sheds used to store farm equipment and uprooted the trees in his maple sugar bush. In this case, almost every farm in the neighbourhood has had buildings that were damaged or destroyed and woodlots that were splintered. Photo by Tony Caldwell / Postmediaįor a farmer, the worst-case scenario is a catastrophic fire. He was able to use a tarp to cover part of it but has no idea when it can be repaired. The roof of Matt Nooyen’s barn was damaged. Rain has flooded it, the electrical system has been turned off. While the damage to farmhouses have been repaired, the barn remained open to the elements all summer. But four months later, the family is still waiting for the money to repair the barn and other buildings and their contents. He saw an insurance adjuster three days after the storm. Nooyen said he last sat down with his insurance broker in April and went line-by-line through the policy. It’s our livelihood and it’s also where we live.” Nooyen has no estimate of exactly how much it will cost to repair all the damage. This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below. Manage Print Subscription / Tax Receipt.National Capital Region's Top Employers.
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