Tornado Footage from GO Bus in Vaughn

This is a video I took of a tornado forming in Vaughn as our GO Bus was driving down the 400.
Around 1:10 you can see the Funnel on the left really spin violently. It is so surreal to see a sight like this in real life...
I have to give credit to our amazing bus driver for getting us through this. I saw a total of 4 tornados actually touch down during this trip and he did an amazing job of driving us through large flying shrapnel and debris.
This storm on Thursday, August, 20th, 2009 was devastating. Multiple tornadoes touched down all over southern Ontario. Woodbridge and Vaughn were left in a state of emergency and 1 boy was killed. Absolutely the worst weather I've seen in my entire life.

Category:

News & Politics

Tags:

• GO
• Bus
• Tornado
• Vaughn
• Thursday
• August
• 20
• 2009

[Stringprodigy]

There were not 5 tornados that touched down in the GTA. You might have seen some funnel clouds but only one actually touched down.

[DemoLover999]

@Stringprodigy Kinda funny then that you can see 3 right there, which were in Vaughn and there was another in Newmarket that killed a child, which was on my way home.

I saw another one and lets say even that didn't touch down and it was only a funnel, you're still looking at 4 tornados.

[Stringprodigy]

@DemoLover999 when did Newmarket become part of the GTA? If you see 3 tornados in that video, you either need glasses or you haven't watched much tornado footage.

[DemoLover999]

@Stringprodigy I never said 5 touched down in the GTA. I said, I saw 5 touch down on my trip, if you look back at the info.

As for the 3 tornados in the video, right at the start you can see 2 of them, an obvious break in the middle of them and now, looking again, a whole year later, I'll give you that the 3rd one I called a tornado at the time didn't touch down. Sorry to displease you. Correction: 4

I don't know what your issue is buddy. You seem to have piss in your cereal or something.

[bo0ya]

this is unbelievable. awesome footage.

[DemoLover999]

thank you very much. It was difficult to focus on getting good footage with a dying battery and a business man freaking out because he'd heard the tornado already claimed 1 life elsewhere :s

[Torn80cj]

Nice shot on the multi-vortex tornado, I filmed one in Wakita Oklahoma this year. It had several funnels. I wished I could have gotten more footage than what I did, but it was coming right at me so I had to quit filming and move out of the way.

[FlingBoogers]

HAHA.. I laughed so hard that day!!!!

[DemoLover999]

yeah.. later on in the trip some i-beams and plywood began pelting the road. The bus driver took us right through it, no stopping.

Fortunately, the debris wasn't hitting too often and the majority of it were smaller pieces for the most part...

[spiritflare]

that was the worst i've seen in toronto and scary stuff..the driver drove through the debris cloud?

[rachelwinston14]

I was working that day- at wonderland- it was actually so fun yet ridiculously scary!!!!