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Message: [QUOTE="EnviroSciGuy, post: 2974291, member: 2818"] I was about to start 8th grade at the time, and I woke up to my mom moving us into the basement in Elbridge. It happened so quick, I'm not sure if they would have had time. Our swinging garage doors, that were padlocked, were ripped off the hinges. Ironwoods (Ostrya virginiana for you stumpies) in our woodland were not uprooted, but snapped aboveground. That is some incredibly strong wood to rip apart! Cornfield across the street had a line of pulverized corn stalks in swirl patterns, making us skeptical that it was only a straight-line wind that struck. I think we were out of power for something like 12 days, and they live right on the Camillus/Elbridge town line (house actually in Camillus) so we weren't too far out from civilization; the power infrastructure had just been annihilated. [/QUOTE]