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Hundreds of thousands of people were left without power on Saturday in the Canadian capital and surrounding area, after a tornado hit twice, destroying homes and tearing down roofs.
The strong winds also hit the area, and Ottawa Mayor Jim Watson said that the electricity could be restored in a few days. At least six people were injured.
"It's in the first two or three traumatic events that have affected our city," Watson told reporters. "It sounds like something from a movie scene or a war scene."
The tornado struck homes on Friday night in the city of Dunrobin, northwest of the city, before crossing the city of Gatineau, located directly north of Ottawa in the province of Quebec.
Violent winds damaged some of Ottawa's major electrical substations, and officials said about 200,000 people on both sides of the river were without electricity. Ottawa and Gatineau together have a population of about 1.3 million people.
"We absolutely lost everything – I have a beer fridge in my garage – that's the only thing that has not been touched – but everything else has disappeared," Todd Nicholson said. , resident of Ottawa, at the Canadian Broadcasting Corp. the tornado hit.
Quebec Premier Philippe Couillard interrupted his campaign before the Oct. 1 provincial election to Gatineau.
