Serving Gogebic, Iron and Ontonagon Counties
Serving Gogebic, Iron and Ontonagon Counties
SNAPPED TREES and littered debris are scattered around Jim Saari's property at Lyons Road and U.S. 51 in Oma Wednesday. The damage is the remnants of a possible tornado that Saari believes occured during Monday night's storm.
OMA, Wis - While most of the attention following Monday night's storm was on the northern part of Iron County, Jim Saari's farm in Oma also sustained considerable damage.
The Iron County Sheriff's Department received a call shortly before midnight Monday reporting a power line down across U.S. 51 at Saari's property on Lyons Road.
Saari said he was in bed, having just finished watching television for the night, when he heard a loud noise and a bang.
He said he told his wife he thought a tree had fallen onto the house and could see the silhouette of branches through one of the windows.
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