Where seconds before there had been a bedroom ceiling, Robert DeNitto looked up into a howling maw of wind, rain and darkness.
DeNitto and his family had just started to live the whole retirement dream, he said, when they moved into their house in Ocean Ridge Plantation near Ocean Isle Beach on Feb. 10.
That dream would turn into a nightmare less than a week later when the home at 6960 Cambria Court that DeNitto shared with his wife, Debra, and son, Zachary, exploded during an F3 tornado packing 165-mile-per-hour winds late at night on Feb. 15.
The DeNittos suffered injuries, but their next door neighbors, Richard and Phyllis O Connor, whose home was lifted up and thrown into the DeNittos , died in the storm.
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REGINA Mental fatigue from the COVID-19 pandemic continues for residents in Saskatchewan, and the Canadian Mental Health Association (CMHA) said it’s likely not going anywhere as uncertainty to a pandemic end date remains. Phyllis O’Connor, the executive director of the CMHA Saskatchewan Branch, said the fatigue has become very apparent over the past few months. “Now, almost a year in, it’s worn extremely thin on people. They’re tired of not being able to be with their family members for such a long period,” O’Connor said. “You can interact with people on social media but it’s not the same as face to face.”