Severe thunderstorms pound the Northern parts of Barron County along with parts of Polk County late Saturday night into the early Sunday morning hrs....
Lots to talk about with the damage so lets dive right into it.....
First off we will talk about Barron County....
There was scattered damage North of HWY 48.... Some damage was noted to South, however it was more isolated in nature......Over in Cumberland Eagle point camp ground got pounded... It appears to have been straight line winds... There are four confirmed injuries, ATTM there are four unconfirmed injuries....
I know of three campers that were destroyed... Tress where uprooted and or snapped off.... Just North of Cumberland on HWY 63 there was a factory that had it's main roof ripped off.....Now on to the other damage spot in Barron County.... All along HWY B there was widespread damage....Tress either uprooted or snapped off.... However the closer one gets to silver lake the narrow and concerted the damage becomes....From just North of HWY B on 11 1/4 street on the West side of Silver lake to 11 3/4 -12 street on the East side of silver lake.... In these areas trees were uprooted and or snapped off... Also appears some of the trees were twisted.... There are tress throughout this area laying in different directions.... This leads me to believe this could have been a possible tornado that struck this area... However at the same time is could have been a downburst winds... Throughout both damage areas trees ranged from 4 inches in dim up to 2 to 3 foot in dim.... Power was still out in most of them areas at noon yesterday... Not sure if it's on today..... Ok moving over into Polk County, as of so far the only area I was able to look at was 5 to 6 miles East of Luck..... Mainly along HWY 63, and along 95th st and 250 th Ave.... In these areas there was damage done to building and one trailer house had some of it's roof torn off... By time I got into this area that had a lot of work done on it... Many tress throughout this area were either uprooted or snapped off... Some twisted of the tress were also noted.... Just up the road from this place there was another place that had windows blown out of the house, along with damage to the sheds... Along with windows smashed out of a car and truck.... Truck had other damage to it from flying debris... There was one injury at this residence.... Person was cut up by flying glass in the house as she was heading for the basement to join the rest of her family..... The grandparents told me that they heard a low rumble sound to a roaring sound...... From what I saw and from all the interviews I do believe this was a possible tornado..... There is other damage in Polk County along with the Northern parts of St. Croix County from my understanding, so will try to get out that way......
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The people I talked to yesterday were so helpful and very nice... Was invited to a church dinner,also was invited to a cookout... I still had work to do but did end back up at the cookout... It gave me a whole new outlook on people yesterday....There is still really nice people in the world..... If you guys happen to read this.... I want to thanks each and everyone for taking the time out of your work to talk to me and thanks so much for super.. I was very hungrey...
