Severe Storms: One Year Later

TERRE HAUTE, Ind. (WTHI) - One year after a series of severe storms tore through the Wabash Valley, those who endured the storm still remember its sights and sounds.

“You could hear the rumbling,” recalled Susan Bryan, who rode out the storm in her Marion Heights home. “They say it sounds like a train, and they mean it. It sounds like a train. The whole house shook.”

A shed in Bryan’s yard was blown over in the storm, and many of the trees around her were knocked down.

A few miles to the East, Stephanie Salter was heading to the basement of her Collett Park home.

“I said, we’re heading down to the basement … took a flashlight and stuff down there,” Salter said. “(I) heard a crash which was the French doors crashing, knocking stuff down and things like that. Then it was over.”

Many of the trees that lined the streets of Salter’s neighborhoods were broken and shredded.

“I lost at least a dozen mature trees and then lots of other small ones that just got taken out,” Salter said. “In the cleanup process, more had to come down.”