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Saturday, June 14, 2008
FAIRBORN — A couple of small, but violent, bursts of heavy weather ripped through Fairborn on Friday afternoon, June 13, downing and snapping off trees and limbs, tossing shingles and bits of siding into lawns and busting up a few fences, gates and outbuildings.
Loretta Avenue resident Fred Bowling, who watched the big tornado in Xenia several years ago, said he didn't see any lightning or anything like a funnel cloud, but there was plenty of strong wind.
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"I saw all them branches going around and around in a circle," said Bowling, looking at the remains of a big maple tree next to the Carlton Arms Apartments, where he lives. "Then the trees were all blowing back and forth."
Chris Bradley, who lives in the nearby Mapleview Apartments, said the power went out in his building and when he looked outside he saw a big tree across the street bent at a 25-degree angle. It wasn't exactly a funnel cloud, he said.
"I looked up in the air and saw nothing but debris in the air spinning," Bradley said. "The way the debris was, it was cone-shaped and going down toward the ground."
Just down Loretta, Tammy Workman was surveying damage to a tree in her front lawn — a two-foot diameter trunk broken off about two feet above ground.
"It was a real loud wind sound, not a train sound," she said.
"It was real loud and everything was just horizontal and it definitely made me nervous. It sounded like hail to me and at that point it was bathroom time."
About a mile away on Faculty Drive, residents were surveying the storm's footprints.
Roger Delong, who lives at Faculty Drive and Dayton-Yellow Springs Road, lost two trees, part of a fence and sustained damage to his garage.
Delong said the storm got his attention when it started shaking his garage door. When he tried to open the door, he said, it pushed him back in.
Dennis Whitt, street supervisor for the city, said his people were working on their fifth tree that had been downed in the public rights of way. An earlier storm took down some trees on the north end of town, he said, including one that demolished a van.
He couldn't estimate how many trees were down in the city, but said the biggest one he saw was close to five feet in diameter.
Contact this reporter at (937) 225-2393 or kmccall@DaytonDaily
News.com.
