Local NewsPower Still Out After Storms, TornadoBy Lauren Leamanczyk
SHEBOYGAN COUNTY - People in Sheboygan County spent Thursday picking up the pieces from 70 mph winds and a weak tornado that hit Wednesday, wrecking a barn and toppling scores of trees, some of them onto vehicles and buildings.
Wayne Wedepohl has a lot of cleaning up to do.
“The sound of the day is chainsaws, in case you're wondering,” Wedepohl said.
The tornado touched down near his Sheboygan County home, leaving plenty of damage behind.
“It’s our turn, I guess it’s our turn,” Wedepohl said.
Trees were split in half, his roof peeled off and 20 feet of a 60-foot silo was left crumbling on the ground.
He says there's no rest for the weary.
“You just alter your schedule, do what has to be done, no sense whining about it, you just get her done and go for it. Get her done, get her done,” Wedepohl said.
Across Sheboygan County, many folks have their own cleaning up to do. There were many downed power lines to repair and dozens of uprooted trees to get rid of and even the barn that was leveled.
Late Thursday evening, We Energies was still trying to restore power to dozens of homes near Elkhart Lake. They were on the scene in Ken Flath's yard where downed trees were complicating the problem.
"It's the worst I've seen in 14 years," Flath said. He had 45 trees snapped on his property alone.
His house was muggy and humid after a day and half without electricity.
“It was very frightening,” Florence Popp said.
Popp was at home and watched the tornado touch down across the street. She has a lot to do before things return to normal.
One thing that will undoubtedly help is putting her American flag back where it belongs.
“Yeah that got blown down. It just hangs on the house there and so I thought I was going to hang that back up again,” Popp said.
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