July 12 2010 Penticton suffered from a severe wind storm. One of the 3 Lakeshore Towers, also known as the Lakeshore 3 experienced an interesting event.
One of the 2 Southerly Lakeshore Towers (160 Lakeshore or 75 Martin St) lost a window from the top floor. A penthouse window was sucked into the Okanagan air! The 15th floor south facing unit had an exterior window pane that previously had a fracture, as a result of the storm the exterior window was sucked right from the building. The strong winds coming from the north acted as a vacuum and the window came falling down 15 stories and landed on a Subaru in the RDOS parking lot. Thankfully no one was injured. Last week we had humid hot weather and this week a small turn of weather events.