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As cleanup efforts continue in the wake of Friday's devastating tornadoes, Ottawa-Gatineau residents realized that the storm had completely changed their lives.
Environment Canada confirmed that a pair of twisters was formed in the area on Friday.
One of them landed in the rural community of Dunrobin, west of Ottawa, before crossing the Ottawa River to the east and causing serious damage to the Mont-Bleu district of Gatineau.
A second tornado passed through a handful of Nepean neighborhoods near the intersection of West Hunt Club and Greenbank Roads.
The two tornadoes knocked down electrical poles, sent tree branches spiraling in the air and damaged hundreds of homes and businesses.
Here are some of the people affected by Friday's storm.
A man and a woman stand by each other while pacing the damage in Gatineau's Mont-Bleu district after a powerful tornado on September 21, 2018. (Lorian Bélanger / Radio-Canada)
The residents of Gatineau leave their homes with their belongings the day after Friday's tornado. (Fred Chartrand / The Canadian Press)
A woman from Gatineau walks with some things. Hundreds of people in Gatineau are looking for stable housing after their homes have been damaged in Friday's storm. (Fred Chartrand / Canadian Press)
Gautier Katantsi is one of more than 600 people displaced by the tornado who are staying in an emergency shelter at the Cégep de l'Outaouais in Gatineau. (Krystalle Ramlakhan / CBC)
Luclairne Loutangou, Katantsi's sister-in-law, also stays at the shelter. She says that the tornado blew up the roof of her house and she does not know where she will go when the shelter will close. (Krystalle Ramlakhan / CBC)
Firefighters are probing some of the damaged apartment buildings in Gatineau the day after tornadoes. (Fred Chartrand / Canadian Press)
A man carries debris to Mont-Bleu after the tornado. (Michel Aspirot / CBC)
A man begins cleaning torn branches after a storm in the Ottawa-Gatineau area on September 22, 2018. (Michel Aspirot / CBC)
Onder Kaban slept in this pickup with his three employees after discovering that there was no more hotel room in Ottawa. (Stu Mills / CBC)
Christine Earle sits on the shoulder of her friend Gillian Szollos as she watches the damage caused by a tornado at her Dunrobin farm. (Justin Tang / Canadian Press)
Christine Earle hugs her son Aidan on his farm. The rural community of Ottawa's Dunrobin was hit hard by one of the tornadoes that crossed the river to reach Gatineau. (Justin Tang / Canadian Press)
A pig wanders on the lawn of Christine Earle's property in Dunrobin while her son Aidan and his family friend Brandon Bates, on the right, clean up the damage of the tornado. (Justin Tang / Canadian Press)
Jody Bowen is the owner of the Heart & Soul Café located in the Dunrobin neighborhood of Ottawa. She was cleaning up on Saturday after her gift shop – located in a yurt – exploded in the storm. (Jennifer Chevalier / CBC)
