The severe weekend weather kept the staff of the Owen Sound Police Service's Emergency Communication Branch hopping.
As the severe weather hit across Grey and Bruce Counties Sunday afternoon, additional staff was called into the Owen Sound police communications centre to handle the barrage of 9-1-1 and administrative calls.
The Owen Sound Police Communication Branch handles all 9-1-1 calls in Grey and Bruce counties, in addition to dispatching for five municipal police services and eighteen fire services covering twenty-six Fire halls in Grey and Bruce.
Over the two waves of the storm on Sunday afternoon and Sunday evening, the Owen Sound Police communications dispatchers handled over 220 9-1-1 calls, dispatched seventy police calls and thirty-one calls for fire services, in addition to countless administrative calls to and from utility services and the public.
Police communications staff would like to remind citizens that they are extremely busy during periods of severe weather, and while they will handle all calls from all sources, 9-1-1 is reserved for emergency calls and is not to be used from non-emergency calls or inquiries.