SPRINGBORO -- Storms rip through the Miami Valley, knocking out power and toppling trees. In Springboro, our crews found a fallen tree in an elderly couple's front yard. They're just happy it didn't hit their house.
"I heard a crunch but I didn't pay any attention to it because all the trees were going back and forth," said homeowner Ruth Reed.
Ruth had no idea how close her home came to being seriously damaged. But, moments after the storm passed through, a neighbor knocked on her door asking if she needed help to clean up the mess.
"I hadn't seen it when he came up to ring the doorbell. Then I went, "Whew! What next'," she said.
Down the road in the Apple Knoll neighborhood of Monroe, there were more toppled trees and broken branches due to powerful wind, hail and pouring rain.
"I was in the basement and the lights started flickering. I thought the kids were playing. But I came upstairs and we had pouring rain and golf-ball size hail," said Lydia Thorpe of Monroe.
"I heard a crunch but I didn't pay any attention to it because all the trees were going back and forth," said homeowner Ruth Reed.
Ruth had no idea how close her home came to being seriously damaged. But, moments after the storm passed through, a neighbor knocked on her door asking if she needed help to clean up the mess.
"I hadn't seen it when he came up to ring the doorbell. Then I went, "Whew! What next'," she said.
Down the road in the Apple Knoll neighborhood of Monroe, there were more toppled trees and broken branches due to powerful wind, hail and pouring rain.
"I was in the basement and the lights started flickering. I thought the kids were playing. But I came upstairs and we had pouring rain and golf-ball size hail," said Lydia Thorpe of Monroe.
