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BARRIE, ONT. Following the EF2 tornado in the south end of Barrie that left a trail of destruction so damaging it could take years to rebuild, experts are now questioning the strength of Ontario s building code. When it comes to downward forces like the weight of snow on a roof, for example, our code is very good at addressing those downward forces, said Glenn McGillivray, Institute for Catastrophic Loss Reduction. In a wind storm, particularly a tornado, that roof wants to get sucked up, and the code doesn t really address those upward sucking forces very well, or at all, and we want to see that changed, McGillvray added. ....
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