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Old 07-13-2008, 02:54 PM
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I got a call at 6:15 Saturday morning from a neighbor of our summer cabin up in Minong, WI (25 mi. west of Hayward). She said a tornado had gone through last night, and that it looked like a war zone. She's 2 doors down from us; her mom and dad's cabin is in between; a 30 ft. pine broke and fell on their roof; trees also fell on their garage.
The neighbor 2 doors down lost practically all of her trees. We had a tree bounce off of our roof and scratch the siding before falling. Our other neighbor cut it up for us and will use it in his wood stove.
His friend down the road had a lot of damage; his boat was in the middle of the lake, his pier was upside down, and his boat station was in pieces down the way. About 200 trees were damaged or destroyed just in the small area of our neighborhood. One property's trees were completely demolished. Another's shore station tipped over and tipped their boat with it. Luckily no one was injured.

This is the second storm in 2 years that has done severe damage to the trees in the area. And the last 2 summers were hot and dry. Very extreme weather...very eerie.
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