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WYOCENA - David Casper is a brave soul. Friday night as twisters touched down in Columbia County, Casper followed the storms in his pickup truck equipped with a laptop computer. He continued to roll video as the powerful twister came seemingly too close for comfort. “Every time I moved there was an escape route,” Casper said seated in the king cab of his oversized truck. “There is a safety factor, obviously.” Casper would appear to know what he’s doing. His video captured the storm as it dropped from the clouds, raked the landscape and then was again swallowed by a large, dark cloud. Click on the link under related content to see damage video from Wyocena. As Casper was rolling video, Jake Schaller was on the phone with his wife. She was warning him of a storm headed toward Wyocena. “Just like that and the storm hit,” he said standing in the debris-covered yard of his home on Highway 22. “And I could hear the trailer hitting the house.” The family camper was flipped upside down on top of the garage. The Columbia County Sheriff’s Department didn’t have any reports of serious injuries as of late Friday evening. But three horses on a farm east of town suffered injuries when the storm flattened their barn.