PEARL CITY, Ill. (WIFR) – A chorus of chainsaws sang on Summit Street the morning after a severe storm. Neighbors debated whether a tornado touched down or straight-line winds ripped through their block in Pearl City.
“It was just a sheet of rain and a sheet of everything,” said Charles Boop. “Just the trees a-blowing, limbs a-blowing, cracking, snapping, wires a-snapping.”
Boop heard the storm enter his Stephenson County community around 8 p.m. Tuesday. The 76-year-old considered himself lucky — gusts only touched his roof, tearing part of it off.
“I was up there at midnight trying to put the tarp over, and that was kind of risky. But, I got it.”…