storm damage pic 1In the aftermath of Sunday night’s storm, Greene County has almost completely cleaned up the mess.

Greene County Emergency Management Coordinator Dennis Morlan says damage was isolated to downed tree limbs and power lines without much structural damage and no reports of any injuries.

He states that the storm itself contained straight line winds of up to 60 miles-per-hour and lots of rainfall, forced tree limbs from rotting and dying trees to come down and in some cases block roadways.

As he was watching the storm develop in Crawford County, he continued to watch it go through Carroll County and realized that the worst of the storm was going to go through the southern part of the County.  Although the storm never developed into a tornado, Morlan points out that there was rotation of clouds indicated on his radar.  And so that prompted him to send out the weather spotters.  It was the first time in about three years and he has had to activate the weather spotters.  At no time did any of the severe weather sirens get activated due to the high winds.

Morlan notes that there wasn’t much damage in Scranton, Grand Junction, Churdan or Paton.  In Rippey, power was temporarily shut off while Alliant Energy repaired one of its transformers that had been damaged from some power poles that had been knocked over by fallen tree limbs.  Other damage was to one recreational vehicle on display by Greene County Motor Company at the intersection of Highway 30 and Highway 4.  In Jefferson, several large tree branches were down.storm damage pic 2

Police Chief Dave Morlan says the street department and the Jefferson Fire Department were out with chainsaws and dragging limbs off the road with chains on backs of vehicles trying to clear the debris.  Little to no property or vehicle damage was reported.

Jefferson City officials say they had to temporarily close the yard waste dump site at Daubendiek Park and so residents can take their broken tree limbs and other yard debris to the parking lot of the municipal pool where the City has set up a temporary dump site.  The City also recommends to its residents to set their limbs at the curbside and the City will chip it for free for this week only.

Dennis Morlan is very happy with how the weather spotters reacted and was impressed with everyone’s cooperation in cleaning up the City of Jefferson so that it could be completely back open to regular traffic within one hour of when the storm passed on Sunday.

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