27 July 2012

Storm Damage

After this summer's long dry spell a lot of us were looking for any rain we could get. We got some rain and more, high winds.

We had been in the mid-west last week visiting two of our sons and on our return trip we hit the storm in Erie, PA. As we traveled east on I-86 we followed the storm as it traveled through southern New York and watched the lightning flash in front of us as we headed east. In Corning, NY we saw trees snapped in midair and the tops thrown hundreds of feet across I-86. This damage continued to the east of Elmira. We now know the National Weather Service has officially confirmed that an EF1 tornado had touched down in Elmira.

When we arrived back in Rome we found some storm damage on Joyce Road. Brian & Tish Hopkins had a large willow tree blow over in their lawn.


Harley & Barb Kay had a tree blow across their driveway. We just had several limbs blow off trees at our barn.


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