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Windstorm crashes wedding parties Couples say ‘I do’ by barbecue and candlelight BRENT RICHTER brichter@nsnews.com
While Saturday’s latesummer storm was knocking out power and making life generally miserable, North Shore residents and businesses pulled together to make things go a little smoother. One wedding set to go on the dock at the Burrard Yacht Club ran into catastrophe before the couple could even say their vows. Quandra Werner was getting ready with her bridal party while her husband-to-be Jay was putting the finishing touches on their rented tent when a fateful gust blew in. “For about 90 seconds, the wind just kicked up so hard, it picked up the whole 90-foot side of the tent and ripped it off the dock,” Quandra said. “All you heard was just the constant crashing of all the wine glasses. Everything smashing. Everything was flying — napkins, tables, chairs.” The groomsmen raced to hold on to the tent and the photographer’s wrist was badly injured, Jay said. “It was just devastation. Everything was lost. Our entire dream wedding was gone but also, I thought ‘We have to get through this. We have to get married,’” Quandra said. Guests, family and yacht club members
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100 km/h winds cut power to 28,000 homes JANE SEYD jseyd@nsnews.com
Close to 28,000 homes on the North Shore were without power at the peak of a powerful windstorm Saturday that sent trees crashing onto parked cars and down across the “Cut” on Highway 1 in North Vancouver. High winds sent one
70-year-old balsam fir crashing down in the 1500block of Kings Street in West Vancouver, destroying two parked cars. A woman driving eastbound on the highway between Taylor Way and 15th Street also had her car hit by a falling tree about a foot in diameter, but luckily escaped without injury, said Jeff Bush, assistant fire
chief at West Vancouver Fire and Rescue. Bush said some fallers driving westbound on the highway who saw the accident stopped their vehicle, jumped out and cut the tree off the car. “It was a noble thing to do, but not the safest thing they could have done,” he said. Highway 1 was also closed temporarily in
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North Vancouver after winds sent a tree down across the “Cut” around 1 p.m. Saturday. Another woman in North Vancouver was reportedly injured after being hit in the face by a flying tree branch, said Bush. While firefighters and See Little page 3