The North Fork Road area of Grand Forks was one of the areas hardest hit in the July 20 wind storm and while resident Chris Moslin’s residence suffered some damage, it wasn’t too bad considering.
“I was watching my deck umbrellas go over,” Moslin said. “I’ve got the weather app on my
iPhone and everything and I think there was a severe thunderstorm warning but nobody told me there was going to be winds of 100 km/hr.”
He said he watched his umbrellas turn inside out and tumble across the lawn and end up in the pool but he considers himself lucky.
“We dodged a bullet. The power lines in the lower North Fork were just snapped. That whole infrastructure was just shattered,” Moslin said, adding he was impressed with how the new poles and lines were put back up.
“It’s taken about a week but it’s looking pretty good and I finally got Shaw Internet (on July 26). That was the last thing,” he said with a laugh.
Moslin is president of the Grand Forks Community Trails Society and while there is the perception that the society and the Grand Forks ATV Club don’t get along, he says that the two groups did some work to clean up some of the trails.
“A group of ATVers as well as trail society members cleared windfalls and a couple of leaning trees,” Moslin said. “First, I got my own property freed of some of the trees that fell and then we started working on the trail and together with all the landowners and the club members – both the trails society and the ATV club.”