There was plenty of work to be done in Swanton today as day light revealed the damage caused by the high winds last night. As power was being restored across town there was one thing that echoed throughout the community….The sound of chain saws as residents began cutting and clearing what the storm had toppled.
"Just like a mast on a ship it just caught the wind absorbed so much wind it knocked it over," Homeowner Steve Salls said standing next to a downed tree on his property.
The dirt underneath the trees now stood straighter than what it held. What fell hit power lines and in one case a car as name told us last night when the storm first hit.
"My jeep was crushed behind us so it smashed by keep into to pieces caused it landed right on top of it," Mike Feeley said.
But for many people it was a bullet dodged, like Salls. The tree on his property missed falling on his house by only a foot.
"I was very very lucky that it is what it is," Salls said.
Many people were nearly finished cleaning up by noon but at one property there was much more work to be done as nearly twenty trees fell throughout the storm.
"It's going to be very hard getting these trees out of here because they might cause other ones to fall." Property owner Kevin Trahan said.
Luckily none of them have to be taken out of his home.
"We are very blessed that this was all that was damaged and nothing else," Trahan said.
Lots of friends and family chipped in to help neighbors drag the storm leftovers away to make it seem like it had never happened in the first place.
"Just one or two days and it'll be back to normal. Minus the tree," Salls said.
