We are staying in my nephews place in the country, this was only 20 mins away from us
It’s a large tornado … it’s chaos out there.”
An RCMP update Saturday night said 14 homes were impacted, five of them destroyed.
Only one injury was reported; a woman trapped in the basement of her home as it was torn apart. Carstairs firefighters rescued the woman who escaped with only minor injuries.
Mounties said the twister travelling about 30 km/h blasted a swath through the rural area one to two kilometres wide not long after a tornado alert had been issued.
A video posted on YouTube by a storm-chaser named Aaron Jayjack, embedded below, shows a wide churn of earth and debris barrelling toward their vehicle on a highway, with the fearful driver coming to a stop, then reversing.