Cleaning up Downriver after Thursday's storm rips off roofs, topples trees and sheds
Posted: 09/03/2010
GIBRALTAR, Mich. (WXYZ) - The clean up is underway Downriver today after Thursday's storm ripped roofs off, knocked down sheds and toppled trees.
In Gibraltar, Julie Philp says the storm sent her patio umbrella flying, knocked down her fence and flagpole, and a branch crushed her daughter's car window. A tree dangles precariously on a tree in her back yard.
"The rain was coming and I was out cleaning up the yard....the next thing you know everything blew away, blew down," Philp told Action News today.
In Rockwood, a new home on Marigold Street will have to be torn down according to the builder. Lightning struck the home and the house caught on fire. The family had just moved in earlier this year. They were not home at the time of the lightning strike.
Also in Rockwood, a shed toppled over on Silver Creek Lane.
Back in Gibraltar, Joan Maynard's shed also got knocked out. It landed on her fence.
WXYZ Meteorologist Sean Ash says according to the National Weather Service it was straight-line winds with gusts of up to 70 mph that were responsible for the damage.
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