MENOMINEE COUNTY, WI (WTAQ-WLUK) – Residents and property owners in Menominee County continue to clean up after storms from nearly one week ago.
What should’ve been a weekend filled with summer fun and relaxation instead included hard work around Legend Lake Sunday.
Work crews and residents have been working ever since the storm tore through the area.
“It’s been non-stop since 3:30 that morning,” said Alex Peters with Peters Logging & Tree Service. “Daylight until dark as long as we can go and the phone calls keep coming all night.”
“The trees were all twisted, so it was very hard to, you know, cut them and do that,” said Jan Brandenburg, who is from Appleton, but owns property on Legend Lake. “And they weren’t even all our trees. Some must have come with the tornado and just dropped them on our lawn. So, it was a mess.”
The EF-1 tornado, with winds up to 98 miles per hour, touched down early Tuesday morning, uprooting and snapping trees.
Carmela Warrington, who has been living on Legend Lake for more than 30 years now, experienced a close call.
A tree in her front yard fell onto her home, but thankfully it did not sustain much damage.
“I have my window open at night and I could hear a big ‘woo’ like that and I knew that doesn’t sound right. So I looked out and here’s the pine needles from the pine tree that fell in my yard, fell on my house. I took my puppy and I ran downstairs right away to the basement,” said Warrington.
Even for professional work crews, one of the most difficult parts of the job is safely removing trees without causing additional damage to properties.
“Now we have to take the extra safety precautions to make sure that what they do got doesn’t get damaged any more,” said William Waupoose.
With the 4th of July weekend just around the corner, the damage is the last thing property owners want to deal with.
But, they’re making the best out of the situation and helping others in any way they can.
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