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WALWORTH COUNTY, Wis. – Walworth County is still reeling after a storm Friday that killed three children, capsizing a boat they were in<\/a>. Power restoration and storm cleanup are still underway.<\/p>\n Tree smashes house <\/p>\n What they’re saying:<\/p>\n Lake Geneva’s mayor issued a disaster declaration over the weekend. The city urges anyone who experienced storm-related damage to call 211 and report it.<\/p>\n FREE DOWNLOAD: Get breaking news alerts in the FOX LOCAL Mobile app for iOS or Android<\/a><\/p>\n As of Monday, many people are still hauling downed branches and leaves to the curb, but few experienced damage like Kathy DeCubellis.<\/p>\n DeCubellis said she has lived in her Geneva Township home for 13 years. On Friday, a tree smashed right through her bedroom. She was home with her daughter and grandson picking dill in the garden when clouds rolled through. As the wind picked up, the family went inside.<\/p>\n DeCubellis said everyone took shelter in the basement. She felt the stairs and the house move from its foundation. Had the storm hit in the middle of the night, DeCubellis said it could have been much worse.<\/p>\n “I hate that this happened, but I\u2019m thankful it was not in the middle of the night,” said DeCubellis. “We would have been sleeping there. We would not be alive. The kids would have been planning a funeral.”<\/p>\n What you can do:<\/p>\n A GoFundMe online fundraiser<\/a> was started to help DeCubellis in the wake of the storm.<\/p>\n Was there an emergency alert? <\/p>\n What’s next:<\/p>\n DeCubellis told FOX6 News she did not hear any alerts or get any notifications on her phone until after the storm passed. FOX6 News reached out to Walworth County Emergency Management for an explanation.<\/p>\n In a statement, a spokesperson said:<\/p>\n “Our storm sirens are connected to the National Weather Service and are activated when they send out the weather warning.\u00a0The individual you spoke with is correct.\u00a0The storm sirens did not go off on Friday afternoon.\u00a0While the storm was moving into the county the radar indicated rotation appeared to have been weakening so the threshold was not met to activate the sirens with the information on hand.\u00a0When the criteria is met, the sirens are activated based on the polygons that National Weather Service put out.<\/p>\n “There were severe thunderstorm warnings out, but no tornado warnings.\u00a0We encourage people to have more than one notification device to ensure all areas are covered, i.e. weather radio, local weather apps, local news media etc.”<\/p>\n Editor’s note: This story was updated with a response from Walworth County Emergency Management.<\/p>\n Portions of this article were formatted using A.I. FOX6\u2019s Bret Lemoine and an editor reviewed it for accuracy and tone prior to publishing.<\/p>\n The Source: Information in this story was gathered from Kathy DeCubellis, Bret Lemoine and Walworth County Emergency Management.<\/p>\n Severe Weather<\/a>News<\/a>Walworth County<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"WALWORTH COUNTY, Wis. – Walworth County is still reeling after a storm Friday that killed three children, capsizing…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":98646,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[7],"tags":[65,1202,2955,714,11787,876,10236],"class_list":["post-98645","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-geneva","tag-geneva","tag-news","tag-severe-weather","tag-us","tag-walworth-county","tag-weather","tag-wi"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ch\/116876409988934546","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98645","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=98645"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98645\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/98646"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=98645"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=98645"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=98645"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}