Original Canadian Broadcasting Corporation tape.
http://www.cbc.ca/archives/categorie...k-tornado.html
This is a pic of the outskirts of Woodstock
These people all lived in and around Oxford Center. The lady standing at back left is Susan Hampson, the Mother of my best friend that went through Basic Training with me back in my Army days. Her house was completley levelled by the tornado.
The 3rd and 4th people at the back from the left are Bill and Betty Hampson, Bill is Susan's Husbands Brother. They lost a ban to the Bill/Betty and Joe/Susan are neighbours and live on teh same road.
Jim and Tina Hird are kneeling,
This graph shows all the tornadoes in Ontario from 1918 to 2004. As you can see we get a LOT of tornadoes. I think it has soemthing to do with Southwetsern Ontario being surrounded by the Great Lakes.
This is a picture of what rolled in on that day in 1979, this is what I saw.
