remain without power<\/a> in Walworth County, or one in 10 of all homes and businesses.<\/p>\nFor Como resident Debbie Krebs, the storm sounded a little like a train engine, unlike anything she\u2019s ever seen or heard before. She watched as entire uprooted trees flew by her window. Just a few minutes before, she said, the skies looked eerily calm.<\/p>\n
She didn\u2019t have time to shelter, as the warning came several minutes after the storm passed, she said.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019ve never seen anything like it \u2014 it was worse than when I was a kid,\u201d she said. \u201cThese trees were down to the ground, and they were spinning, and the hail, oh my God, the hail.\u201d<\/p>\n
Her neighbor, Tina Invergo, was getting coffee at a friend\u2019s house, five minutes down the road, when the winds overtook the neighborhood. With all the downed power lines and trees, it took her 35 minutes to get back to her house from just a few blocks away.<\/p>\n
She\u2019s since had to make a trip to Lowe\u2019s to get a generator to power a feeding tube for her husband, a cancer patient. Like other residents, she\u2019s been told power will return in three to five days.<\/p>\n
Invergo had been looking forward to throwing the Fourth of July celebration she\u2019s organized in her neighborhood every year for the past eight years. She made the quick decision to cancel the event, she said.<\/p>\n
\u201cHer yard is a mess, a total mess,\u201d she said, pointing to a neighbor\u2019s house. \u201cAnd I was in her yard before it happened, and we were looking at a woodpecker. And then the tree that the woodpecker was in was gone. It was like a nightmare.\u201d<\/p>\n
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