PALM COAST, Florida —Residents of Palm Coast were picking up the pieces and cleaning debris from a tornado that ripped through the area on Saturday, December 14th, in the evening. The National Weather Service confirmed that is was an EF1 tornado that hit Palm Coast. The tornado has winds as high as 110 mph and was 25-74 yards wide. City officials said a total of 171 homes were damaged, with seven being destroyed. About 22 homes suffered moderate damage and 141 were partially damaged, officials said.

The value of the overall damage is estimated at over $5 million. Officials said the heaviest damage happened to homes and property in the B Section in the Indian Trails neighborhood, but damage was also reported in the C Section and F Section of the neighborhood.

Neighbors stated that they felt a change in temperature and immediately returned to their homes, only to witness this tornado come through. Homeowners are complaining of roof damage, landscaping damage, cracks in driveways. For many this was a very, very scary experience.

CBS News reported that FEMA was on the ground assessing the damages in Washington, Illinois after the deadly the deadly tornadoes hit Illinois on Sunday. They stated that 1,082 homes were severely damaged or destroyed in Washington alone. There were also nearly 1,500 homes damages and destroyed across the state. The town of 15,000 experienced 22 tornadoes including the EF-4. The tornadoes swept through and destroyed just about everything in its path. FEMA says this is among the worst ever seen. The inspectors must use electronic maps just to figure out state lines. Damage that even by their standards, was overwhelming. It will take days or even weeks just to inspect all of the damage. They first have to figure out which of the homes need to be completely taken down before they can proceed. This is just the beginning to a what will be a very long recovery.

On Sunday, November 17th, Washington, Illinois faced a devastating tornado that killed 6 people across the state and flattening much of the city of 15,000 people.

Bits of American flags and insulation from destroyed homes clung to trees that had been stripped of most of their branches and remaining leaves by the Washington twister. Spawned by a fast-moving storm system, the tornado had winds of up to 200 miles per hour.

The storm destroyed 250 to 500 houses in that city. Authorities were keeping evacuated residents away out of concern that the remaining structures were dangerously unstable.

The storm produced about 80 tornadoes, according to the National Weather Service. The tornadoes leveled scores of homes and demolished entire neighborhoods. The National Weather Service confirmed preliminary EF-4 tornado damage in Washington County in southern Illinois, with winds of
The storm knocked down power lines across the Midwest, and power companies reported that some 800,000 homes and businesses were without electricity on Monday morning. Michigan had the largest number of outages, with Illinois, Indiana, Ohio, Missouri, West Virginia and Pennsylvania also feeling the storm’s aftermath.

In neighboring Kentucky, the storm system damaged several homes in the western part of the state, ripping shingles and gutters from roofs, scattering tree limbs and downing power lines.

WEST HAVERSTRAW, N.Y. — If it wasn’t bad enough that folks from Rockland County just finished rebuilding their homes after Hurricane Sandy, they get hit by a fast-moving storm system that took down trees and damaged homes. The National Weather Service confirmed that a microburst hit parts of Rockland County on Thursday afternoon. A microburst is a thunderstorm that releases a large amount of energy all at once and comes down to the surface as straight-line damaging winds. Thursday’s storm cell produced winds of up to 60 mph as it traveled in a northeasterly direction.

A large tree was completely uprooted and landed on top of an empty gazebo in River Front Park in Stony Point. Other parts of the town like West Haverstraw, Harvestraw, and Stoney Point were not nearly as lucky.

People were devastated. Standing on the streets, crying at what has happened to their homes in what was a matter of 10 minutes. Trees with roots at least 10 feet tall were uprooted as the storm plowed through the county.

On Benson Street in West Haverstraw, a large tree fell onto a house. The tree fell into the neighbor’s kitchen, actually in the kitchen. The whole roof is opened up
Neighbors states that there were gusts of wind coming at you, hailing thunder very loudly.

The storm ripped through the area. The system weakened as it tracked toward Westchester County and the Connecticut border.

A flash flood watch was in effect for Warren, Morris, Hunterdon, Passaic and Bergen counties in New Jersey, Rockland and Westchester counties in New York and Fairfield County in Connecticut until Friday evening.

Rebuilding your home after a storm like this can be very difficult and time consuming. It’s hard enough to believe that it’s happened to you. It’s important that homeowner’s review their insurance policies at a time like this. Make sure they have someone on their side defending them against the insurance companies.

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