Some residents of an Ottawa suburb are questioning the reliability of Environment Canada’s weather alert system after they received alerts well after two tornadoes had already touched down in Barrhaven on Thursday afternoon.
“We got the alert 15 minutes after it struck,” said Charlene Burnside.
She said she had been watching the skies after a tornado watch was issued that morning, but the storm hit her house and blew out windows before she received an alert on her phone.
Katie Gies said she didn’t get the alert until she was sheltering in place eight minutes after she saw a tornado.
“I’m just thinking about our preparedness for extreme weather events and what our government and
