Last Updated Thursday, July 15, 2021 11:30PM EDT A tornado ripped through a Barrie neighbourhood on Thursday afternoon, injuring eight people, uprooting trees, destroying homes, and flipping over at least one vehicle. The storm touched down in the Prince William Way and Mapleview Drive area of southeast Barrie at around at around 2:40 p.m., shortly after Environment Canada first issued a tornado warning for a wide swath of the region. Simcoe County paramedics said they transported eight people to hospital, four of them with serious injuries. Officials described the damage from the storm as “catastrophic” and not unlike what you might encounter in a “war zone.”
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