The town of Groton comes together to clean up mess left by 80-mile-per-hour winds

GROTON, N.Y. (WSYR-TV) — A storm’s whipping winds and heavy hail left the town of Groton shaken. 

“Then just like out of the blue it just come in bam high winds, blowing trees over, ripping them up by the roots, trees across the road,” said Jeff Griffs.”High lines laying across 34, really coming down intermittent with hail, just hammered, almost like a mini tornado.”

The 80-plus-mile-a-hour winds left many without power for hours and with this amount of damage.

This left people wondering who’s going to clean it all up.

“It might have to be the community just people coming together let me cut that tree for you or let me move that branch for you or you know kind loving people taking care of each other,” said Kirsta Lynch.

Which is what town residents say happened here. This wasn’t exactly the relaxing Sunday morning one might have hoped for but with a graduation party scheduled to be held here this week, the town came together to get the storm’s mess all cleaned up.

“Called people last night and were like hey if you’re not doing anything come over and they were like sure thing be right there,” said Drew Bush.

It’s a pile of branches that’s as tall as a person. 

The family called in reinforcements to help pick up the pieces but for the damage done, the family said that they are grateful their house didn’t end up like the one across the street.

“We were standing right inside the house and felt the whole house shake we weren’t sure what it was and then we looked out the window when it was all over and we were like there it goes,” said Bush.

One of about ten trees that were ripped up or fell over on their property in a storm Bush says was unlike anything he’s experienced before.

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