"I've seen tremendous damage... damage that I would have never thought I'd see here," said Robert Lancaster, a homeowner on Decon Road for 48 years.
“The wind picked up, I saw the rain going sideways I looked out the front door I couldn’t see the green of the trees across from my house, all I could see was gray and I knew it was rain. So I grabbed my wife and we ran into my daughter’s closet and I said: 'we have to get out of harm's way.' I just had a feeling like a tornado or something was going to happen,” said Micheal Davis, who was with his wife at their Deacon Road home when the storm blew through.
When the storm passed, Davis found nine large trees down in his yard.
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