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Local NewsKenosha: Tacos El Rey DestroyedBy Katie DeLong
KENOSHA – In the northern part of Kenosha, the storm left heavy damage.
Some buildings are completely destroyed and large trees were uprooted and whipped around.
Tuesday was a day of clean up and picking up the pieces. The owners of Tacos El Rey saw significant damage from the twister that ripped through their neighborhood.
“My wife and I looked up and we saw the funnel cloud right over there,” Jeremy Stump said.
Fortunately, the restaurant wasn't open at the time. The Stumps live next door and they don't have a basement so they ran to the restaurant and took shelter there.
“We get down there and the whole building started shaking. We could feel it go over. Our ears popped, just a loud, thunderous roar came over,” Stump said.
The tornado ripped out the back fence, whipped a billboard around the backyard and spared nothing along the way.
Across the street, Vincent Tassoti's garage and pigeon loft with 200 birds inside was destroyed.
“Most of them aren’t around anymore, so they must have joined the big loft in the sky. We're still hoping to find some,” Tassoti said.
Hope is what they have in Kenosha as they rebuild.
It’s a real bad mess. We have a lot of destruction here, but we'll clean it up,” Sonja Harris of Tacos El Rey said.
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