Alameda family grateful to be alive after tornado destroys Saskatchewan farm

While Danny is assessing the damage, he is grateful to be alive.

The Brock family savenges clothing and other items scattered around their yard after a tornado. (Image Credit: Gillian Massie/CJME)

“You know what goes through your head when something like this is happening? Hope to God that you’re going to make it alive,” Danny said.

“There was a point there I didn’t think we were going to, because I saw daylight come through the floor and I was just like, hang on, but there’s nothing to hang on to. We were still hunkered in the basement, and it got quiet, so I knew it was over.

“My neighbour phoned, and I told him my house got hit, so he was trying to get over here, but the hailstones were like tennis ball size, and he couldn’t see. And when I came out of the basement to look well, there’s no walls around me, and I saw the tornado leaving,” Danny recounted as he stood amid the debris.

Danny said he emerged from the basement to find some of the walls missing at his home. (Image Credit: Gillian Massie/CJME)

“I was trying to be as calm as I could for the kids, and my 15-year-old son, Roman, he was like a rock, like unreal, and he was hanging on, I was hanging on to all them, and I just said, I love you guys, I love you guys, and it’ll be all right.”

Danny isn’t sure how long the tornado stayed over them but felt that he had enough protection to keep his family safe.

“The only thing that was falling on us was insulation and dirt and grass and rain. But yeah, like honestly, the bathroom downstairs, like they say, put as many walls between you as you can. I think that’s the only thing that saved us, honestly.”

Thirteen-year-old Bronsyn admitted to being scared as the tornado rocked the house.

“We were like, laying on the basement floor, and we could, our ears popped in,” she recalled. “We could feel the pressure in our heads, and then we could hear the house getting ripped apart. You could just hear boards snapping and stuff,” Bronsyn recalled.

The kids even experienced nose bleeds because of the pressure.

One of the family dogs also died in the shop, as the tornado took its path overhead.

The Brock family was looking for different items that could be salvaged from the tornado wreckage.

13-year-old Bronsyn Brock told me he was hoping to find the side-by-side soon. @CJMENews @CKOMNews pic.twitter.com/gO2L4dhHS7

— Gillian Massie (@massie_gillian) June 10, 2026

Devastation

As the family began the painstaking cleanup, the Brock’s family house was missing its roof, exposing a sight line right through to the kitchen. In shock, Danny barely noticed.

“I grabbed the kids and lifted them out of the house because there was glass everywhere, and boards and nails. We loaded them into the neighbour’s truck and we just turned around and (were) gone. I didn’t even, I didn’t even really look, I just knew the walls of the house were gone. I didn’t know anything else.”

Only part of the living room and basement remains at Danny Brock’s home.

He said he held his three kids tightly in the basement bathroom while the tornado blew overtop of his house.

Nobody in the family was hurt. @CJMENews @CJMENews pic.twitter.com/IqHRwozPO4

— Gillian Massie (@massie_gillian) June 10, 2026

It is only in the harsh daylight, Danny is assessing upturned cars, shredded trees and debris.

He is not thinking of what has been lost, but rather all they still have.

“You know, it’s disheartening, like for sure it is. But in all honesty, that stuff can probably be replaced, or you got it in your memories.

“All that matters is that we’re all right. That’s all matters.”

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by CJME

Alameda family grateful to be alive after tornado destroys Saskatchewan farm

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