RIVERVIEW, WI (WTAQ-WLUK) – Severe weather rolled through NE Wisconsin on Sunday.
A couple of the areas in the path of the storms were the town of Mountain and Crooked Lake in Oconto County.
Residents and emergency crews were working to clean up the mess.
Michael Rzepka, with the Crooked Lake Volunteer Fire Department, tells FOX 11 the downed power lines and trees had firefighters working overtime.
“We’ve been checking households to make sure no one is injured.”
Rzepka says a drooping telephone line has closed off a portion of County Road W into Mountain.
“That’s a great big telephone line that runs through town. And we’re not able to get it high enough, to make sure that nobody would hit it.”
Farther north up the County Road W, the nearly 60-mph wind gusts left Richard Alberts’ lake cottage crushed by a massive tree.
“He called and said I got some bad news for you. So, he sent me a picture and this is what he sent, and of course, just a pit your stomach”
The powerful winds also left thousands in the area without power.
Rzepka, and the rest of the emergency crews say their work has only just begun.
“Just mayhem, trees down everywhere.”.
Clean-up work in some areas will take another day or two.
