Fast Moving Storm Tips RV, Takes Down Barn
Louise Hoffman Broach | Wayuga Editor
Tuesday, July 22 2008
MACEDON/MARION - A 200-foot-wide storm system traveled two miles through western Wayne County July 20, ripping up trees, toppling a barn and flipping over a camper, trapping two people inside.
Wayne County sheriff’s deputies said both people, David and Sharon Stalker, a couple visiting from Virginia, were trapped in the camper outside a home on Eddy Road in Macedon. They were taken to Strong Memorial Hospital in Rochester, and one of them suffered severe foot trauma
Leaning telephone poles and uprooted and split trees lined Eddy Road between Route 350 and Walworth Road. About 45 homes in the area lost power
Deputies said the storm came through just before 1 p.m. It apparently started around Route 350 in Macedon, traveled east before turning northeast and ending in Marion. The most severe damage was reported on Weidrick, Mill, Walworth, Daansen and Parker roads.
The storm was loud, but short-lived, said Mill Road resident Mike Butler. He said the wind also blew out the wall of his neighbor’s barn.
“I thought it was something like a tornado,” Marti Preston of Macedon told 13-WHAM News.
It may not have been a tornado, but Preston says it felt like one.
“It picked those trees right out of the ground. They’re huge. Those trees were taller than my house,” Preston said.
In Marion, trees were uprooted on Sherwood Road. One resident, Ashley Cornell, said she saw what looked like a funnel cloud, but it didn’t last long.
Other areas of Wayne County were hit with a deluge of rain throughout the day. Power was knocked out in parts of Savannah served by RR&E on Saturday, as well as Sunday.
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