Eagle, NE Cleaning Up From Monday Tornado

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EAGLE, Neb. (KPTM) - The morning after, the view of the front and back yards at Karen Dahm's place look a lot like the same headache.

Trees are tipped over, and branches scattered everywhere.

"It hit the top of the house and bounced off, now it's laying where I can't get in and out of the backdoor," she says about one tree.

Dahms has lived on a corner lot in Eagle since 1982.

She says yesterday's storm that knocked over her trees, and left jeans dangling from what's left of them, was the worst she's seen.

"I'm petrified of storms," she says. "I don't have any power."

In the town of 1,200 people, though, Dahms place is far from the only property that sustained significant damage.

Nick Lovell saw it happen firsthand after he and his wife ran into their house seconds before the storm hit.

"We looked across the street and saw our neighbors shed," he said.

It was gone, flying through the air where part of it lodged against a tree.

"That was the first time we were scared enough to run into our basement," says Lovell.

As power crews started restoring electricity Tuesday, National Weather Service survey crews assessed the damage.

"This looks very typical of what we call an EF-1 tornado. Winds 95 miles an hour," says Brian Smith.

Cass County Emergency Management Officials accompanied Smith on his survey.

Bill Cover, the county's emergency management director, says there were eight injuries stemming from the storm, but that none are life-threatening.

He says the town of Eagle does have a siren warning system, but that Monday's storm came up too quickly for it to be used.

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