20th anniversary of the Pine Lake tornado
Harvey Kelts hopes to never see anything like it again.
Kelts was playing in a ball tournament at the Pine Lake Hub Community Centre on July 14, 2000. It was early evening when he and a teammate noticed a bad looking storm rolling in.
“We could see the clouds getting darker and we were surprised at how quick it seemed to be coming in,” he remembers. “As it got closer we folded up our lawn chairs and thought we’d better back to where we camped, because it looked like it was going to be a pretty bad one. By the time we had got there, literally within three minutes, the wind had picked up and it started to hail. We had no idea what it was and just rode it out.”