Queen's Line Tornado 2007
I love severe weather. I love writing. And I particularly love writing about severe weather. The open range of the Queen's Line, being, as you know, so much in the heart of the Ottawa Valley that it IS the Heart of the Ottawa Valley, has always led to some interesting weather. The valley and particularly the Ottawa River seem to draw storms. We've had some dandies over the years. The worst looking one I already wrote about. The one I'm about to describe here was the most destructive in my memory. That late July 2007 day started off like any other typical summer day on a Queen's Line farm; sunny, warm, and increasingly humid. Green grass and blue sky and fresh air. The one thing different was the sound; the sound of three sets of heavy hooves pounding and loud, restless whinnies. King's big Belgiun horses next farm down were not themselves. Not at all. Normally very docile and languid, today they were galloping the full length of their pasture, up and down, non-s...