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“I was scared when I saw it coming, but it happened so fast and was over with,” he recalled. “You’re just sort of numb, like, what the heck happened?”
“I thought the whole tree was coming at me, but it broke off in half and hit there. And another tree branch went through there,” he pointed.
In taking out so many trees, the twister also wiped out a natural sound barrier to nearby 611.
“You have rush hour times, trucks going by. Just very loud,” he added.
Skelding, who spent 30 years landscaping his home, actually got off easy. One of his neighbors is bracing for demolition because their house was twisted off of its foundation. Their roof and an entire side of the house are gone. A blue tarp now covers the gaping holes.
“They said it shook the thing. Not only did the walls separate this way, they separated it that way,” said Skelding. “I landscaped (my home) all by myself, and in 30 seconds it’s gone.”
County officials say they’re still waiting to hear back from Harrisburg on their application for emergency funding.