County recovers from ‘wicked’ windstorm
As a severe windstorm blew through the county Saturday night, Vinny McGinnis said the wind at his Chicora home was particularly “wicked.”
“Yesterday, just sitting there watching some of the hockey games, listening to the wind, out of no where I decided to go look at the trees outside,” McGinnis said. “Right when I did, I looked across the road and two fair-sized trees, but thin in size, fell across the road. And then mine fell, and I thought, ‘Holy cow, my big pine tree.’”
McGinnis’ pine tree was a healthy 70 feet tall and at least 50 years old.
The wind, he said, completely uprooted it.
“It just fell shy of the white line on Route 68. Unfortunately, it did bring down the cable wire from the utilities, but it didn’t cause any outages,” McGinnis said.
