According to insurance suppliers, the hail storm that criticized the Brooks area, southeast of Calgary, costs millions in damages by crops, are expected to criticize.
The powerful storm sent The size of a golf ball Save breaking and left a large strip of destruction that extends from Alberta to Saskatchewan, with broken windows, lining of houses, demolished electric lines and crops flattened.
More than 350 hail claims of the storm have already been presented, which cover more than 350,000 damage, according to George Kueber, claims that adjust to the Agriculture Manager Financial Services Corp. (AFSC), a provincial crown corona corona that ensures alberty farmers.
“But we do know that it will be millions, no doubt,” Kueber said.
More claims could still arrive, since farmers have 14 days after the storm to present. Kueber said he doesn’t expect the storm to make the premiums increase.
Months of work eliminated in minutes
“The amount of hail that is needed to spray that on the ground is crazy. It seems that someone has already passed and harvested, and unfortunately that was not the case,” Green said.
The time of the storm, at the end of the season with harvest just around the corner, is a great disappointment for farmers, he added.
“All sowing, all herbicide applications, verification, irrigation and the only thing that remains is to harvest and harvest the reward of that hard work … and then see that it has gone in a matter of 20 to 30 minutes, I think it is difficult, difficult for people surely.”
Winds equal to an EF1 tornado
Researchers from the Canadian laboratory of severe storms at the Western University in London, Ontario, visited the area to inspect the sequelae.
“It began as a typical supercell storm that comes out of the foothills to the south of Calgary. But it quickly became a strong wind and producer of great hail,” said David Sills, director of the Tornados Project in the north of the laboratory.
They used satellite images to measure the so -called “hail scar”, showing the path of visible damage to crops and vegetation. The length covered 400 kilometers wide, from Bran, high., About 100 kilometers southeast of Calgary, to the provincial grass in Saskatchewan, which is about 540 kilometers east of Calgary. The most severe damage extended 11 kilometers wide from Brooks to the north.
The researchers estimated that the winds reached up to 165 kilometers per hour, equivalent to an EF1 tornado.
Sills said they are still looking for damage reports to obtain a more complete understanding of the impact of the storm.
