'The Big Gust'

Yesterday afternoon we were getting southwesterly winds and arctic air was on its way in from the north. So I think the two fronts met and we got a huge gust of wind and it knocked trees down everywhere. It travelled through Sooke, into Colwood and My parents up in Nanaimo got it about half hour later. It was the weirdest freakish wind gust ever. A single mother with her newborn baby one block up from us had a tree come right through her roof destroying the entire house and they somehow thankfully were spared and got out safely. Across the street from us, as we were watching the huge wind gust hit, we saw a group of four trees roots and all be taken over just missing the house and then another huge fir tree luckily missing the two homes across from us by maybe a cm. Maybe a part of the roof was damaged thats it. So lucky. All the wires came down. Scary stuff....these two photos are taken from our house looking across the street.