Tornado aftermath: Reality of destruction hits home for Gatineau residents

After four days in the same clothes, barred from entering his condemned home, he’d had enough.
“It’s ridiculous,” Idi Ngala said. “I want to grab my stuff now. If anybody stops me, that’s on them.”
He went in the back door and up to the top floor of his apartment in the Mont Bleu neighbourhood of Gatineau on Monday to check on his possessions for the first time since the tornado struck Friday.
It was all safe. The building even looks solid, Ngala said, e