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dito! 

Hi Andrew,
  I was in that 7.1 Seattle quake you were in.
  I was at work in West Seattle and had just finished replacing a hi-limit fill switch in a carbon silo.  I started the refill sequence to check operation when the quake began.  I thought to myself, "Boy this thing is filling hard, I think I'll wait outside til the cycles done."  Now this silo is about six feet wide and forty feet tall so I thought being outside was a good idea.  As I stepped through the silo's door I thought, "Man, its filling so hard its even shaking the (silo's concrete) pad!!"
  That's when violent shaking started.  I'd been throught a few earthquakes in California and knew enough to be aware of my surroundings, so my attention was 100% focused on that carbon silo.  Which ever way it fell I was going the other!!   Fortunately the silo stayed put, but it was still quite a ride!!

Never felt the earth shake, but I can attest to watching a Tornado go through the backyard a few years ago..... I was living on a ten acre lot at the time and this twister missed the house by a couple of hundred feet.....too close for comfort if you ask me......I checked for damage down the field and found "new" trees had been planted without any roots.......the farm next door, a half mile away was not so lucky. Their drive-shed roof was lifted off in one piece and re-deposited after being turned 90 compass degrees---tops of their two silos were removed and several farm implement vehicles were tumbled across the fields like Tonkas...........what a day ! Best news...............nobody hurt  

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Andrew, I should have been more clear.  When that storm passed by me, I was living in Ontario.

This shot, although not shot by me, was of the actual tornado which passed through here and did quite a bit of damage to a small village called Violet Hill.

i remember when i lived in medicine hat, it got rather warm in the summer especially on the plains. dont know if its the same in ontario and vancouver though
that tornado looks to be what An F2 Maybe F3 on the scale

alberta, not to far from calgary

Foz,  my friend, get out your trusty little map once again and take a look west of the ciry of Vancouver......there is an island off the coast called Vancouver Island.......thats where I now reside (Comox Valley), and the weather here is very much different from the mainland. and as for Ontario, well thats a province. If you have enough detail, look northwest of Toronto, on a line that is south of Lake Simcoe, and you may see Orangeville, Shelburne, and Grand Valley.  I lived in the country in the middle of that triangle.