MONROE TOWNSHIP — A barn sat half collapsed on Marcy Hill Road near Monroeton after a violent storm passed through this part of Bradford County Monday afternoon.
Just down the road, a huge tree was yanked from the ground like a weed.
Peggy Heskell lives in the home with that felled tree and says during the storm she hunkered down in the basement.
“I had my grandchildren, took the kids and went downstairs,” said Heskell. “And you could hear everything happening. You could hear the freight train and you could hear the hail pounding and we just stayed down there and waited.”
“My kids were in the basement with my mother at their house and she said it sounded like a freight train going by, and it was a white out, you couldn’t see anything,” said Heskell’s son, Joey Ackley.
Now the National Weather Service confirms an EF1 tornado touched down about four miles from Heskell’s house near Monroeton.
While the tornado didn’t touch down on Marcy Hill Road, the NWS says the 100-mile-per-hour straight line winds were able to take the roof of one house.
“There is no roof, no rafters, no nothing. It took the whole top of the house,” said Heskell, who said that home is the family farm house that has been with them for generations.
There’s a temporary roof, but it doesn’t look like the house can be saved.
“They said there was so much damage inside that they wouldn’t be surprised to tear it down and start over,” said Heskell.
And just down the road, another barn fell victim after it was leveled by the storm.
Still, everyone here is just happy no one was hurt
“That was my most important thing, that nobody got hurt and everybody was still alive and yeah, that nobody was really hurt,” said Linda Ackley.
By: Peggy Lee POSTED 11:34 PM, JULY 26, 2016
Photo: WNEP
