May 2 Storm Damage May 2, 2008
A wind storm ripped through the Baldwin City area early Friday morning and caused damage at various locations.
Blake McCall points out where the roof on the ground in front of him used to be before Friday morning's wind storm. The truck and lawn mower that were housed under the roof suffered minor damage. The McCalls live about two miles west of Baldwin City on U.S. Highway 56.
Ed Booth walks away from the 30-foot Bradford pear tree that was snapped like kindling during the early Friday morning wind storm. The Booths live at 1016 Jersey.
This tree in the front yard of Mike Brungardt's house at 920 Grove fell to north and east. Had it fallen south, it would have taken out a power line. "The Lord works in strange and mysterious ways," Brungardt said of the relative good luck during the early Friday morning wind storm.
Alden Bradley surveys the damage done to an old farrowing house on his farm three miles east of Vinland during the early Friday morning wind storm.
This large limb snapped out of a tree south of Alden Bradley's house three miles east of Vinland during Friday's early morning storm. It fell away from the house, unlike several other smaller limbs that crashed into the deck.
Alden Bradley looks through the middle of what once was a decades-old barn at his farm three miles east of Vinland. It was destroyed during the early Friday morning wind storm.
This is part of the roof that was on the barn destroyed at Alden Bailey's farm during the early Friday morning storm. The farm is three miles east of Vinland.
This cedar tree at Alden Bailey's farm was snapped in half by Friday's early morning wind storm.
Blake McCall inspects the minor damage to his truck and lawn mower after Friday morning's wind storm ripped the roof off their inclosure. The building had cinder block walls and metal roof.
Blake McCall examines the cinder block rubble that was left when Friday morning's wind storm tore the roof off a garage attached to his barn west of Baldwin City.
Blake McCall points to a neighbor's barn across U.S. Highway 56 that was lifted up by Friday's wind storm and blown several hundred feet. It was still in one piece. The animals housed in it all escaped, but were found and were unharmed.
A large tree fell on Harold Jehle's home at 363 E. 900 Rd. during the May 2 storm. It's located 81/2 miles west of Baldwin City and a half mile north. The Jehles weren't home at the time.
