TROIS-RIVIERES, Que. – Residents in Trois-Rivieres, Que., spent Labour Day cleaning up after a small tornado ripped through the city Sunday night.
Powerful winds reaching 130 kilometres an hour uprooted trees in the community northeast of Montreal and caused damage to about 70 homes.
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Andre Cantin of Environment Canada says the tornado ranked as zero on a scale up to five and was over in about a minute.
Cantin says there have been four tornadoes in Quebec so far this year and the province averages six annually.
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The mayor of Trois-Rivieres, Yves Levesque, says no one was hurt in the storm.
He says the clean-up is well underway, though some are still without power.
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