Residents of Silver Lake are cleaning up after a powerful microburst tore through the small county village over the weekend, toppling trees and damaging homes, fences and cars.
The storm, which moved through Saturday evening, brought winds of up to 80 miles per hour, according to the Power of 5 Team, which is confident the destruction was caused by a microburst.
One of the hardest-hit areas involved a massive tree that fell from the yard of Thomas Gelonese’s childhood home on Oakridge Drive, where his 85-year-old mother still lives. The tree came down next door, damaging two cars and crushing a large section of the roof of a neighboring home, where Gelonese said the neighbors were watching their grandchildren at the time.
“Catastrophic. Couldn’t imagine this would happen in a million years. Something that tree — that big,” Gelonese said…