ST. STEPHEN, N.B. - Raymond Bourque had just gone to bed when he awoke to a loud bang that rocked his house Monday night.
A howling wind that hit the Maritimes overnight peeled the steel roofing off a large part of the St. Stephen Curling Club on George Street and sent it crashing into the house he rents.
"It had to have been some kind of a force, like a dart," Bourque said Tuesday.
A six-metre section of curling club roof - corrugated steel held together with two-by-four strapping - smashed into the back of the house.
It blew from the far end of the curling club, roughly the length of a sheet of ice, before smacking the outside of Bourque's kitchen, directly below his bedroom.
He came downstairs to discover three pieces of two-by-four sticking through his wall from outside.
The two-by-fours entered the back of his kitchen cupboards, breaking one door off, destroying the contents in three compartments, a coffee maker and heirloom china.
By noon a repair crew had covered the damaged area of the house with a tarpaulin.
Another crew worked on the curling club roof. Insurance adjusters had yet to tally the damage.
"It's amazing, you see something like this on TV," said Bourque. "It was quite an experience, that's for sure."
High winds strip metal roof off St. Stephen, N.B., curling club, hits home
- Published on January 27th, 2010
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The Canadian Press
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