Residents in Portage are cleaning up after powerful storms swept through the area on Thursday night, leaving behind downed trees and power lines.
One homeowner, Carla Cook, was inside her house when a large tree crashed down, bringing power lines with it. “All of a sudden it got real quiet, and then the wind sounded like it was gonna lift a roof off,” Cook said.
Cook said she waited until this morning to survey the damage, wary of the downed power lines. “I didn’t come out until this morning to look and see the damage, just because of down lines and things I could see, the one from my bedroom over there that was lying on the roof, and so I thought, ‘better not go out,'” she explained…