PICTURE IT: The Storm's Aftermath

Posted: July 3, 2012

The powerful straight-line winds from Friday's storm hurled a trampoline up against the side of a home on Singers Glen Road west of Harrisonburg. (Photo by Michael Reilly)
A large maple fell on Oscar Brizuela's Honda Civic at his home in Harrisonburg during Friday night's storm. (Photo by Michael Reilly)
In a scene that was all too common throughout the central Valley — and much of the mid-Atlantic — a downed tree and power lines blocks the road, in this case Reservoir Street in Harrisonburg. (Photo by Michael Reilly)
If you didn't see across the road, chances are you saw downed trees and limbs across yards, fences, driveway -- and sometimes homes -- in the central Valley this past weekend. (Photo by Michael Reilly)
Downed trees, power lines -- even power poles -- were a familiar sight across the central Valley. (Photo by Michael Reilly)
Kat Grundy surveys her Rawley Springs home, which took a direct hit by a large oak tree on Friday night. The tree came through Grundy's roof and pierced her dining room ceiling. "It sounded like World War III," she said of the tree's impact on her metal roof. (Photo by Michael Reilly)
The storm's winds were fierce enough to pull this tree's roots right out of the ground. The oak fell on Rawley Springs resident Kat Grundy's roof. (Photo by Michael Reilly)
A fallen tree remained on top of this Toyota Corolla parked in an alley near Lewis Street in Harrisonburg on Monday. (Photo by Michael Reilly)
Capt. Duane Burleigh of the Salvation Army hands bottled water to Grottoes resident Jose Vergara on Sunday at the Grottoes Volunteer Fire Department. The Salvation Army and other relief agencies, along with city and county governments and volunteer emergency crews, did what they could to assist residents trying to cope with no power and temperatures in the 90s this past weekend. (Photo by Michael Reilly)
Trees and power lines weren't the only things that fell victim to Friday's powerful winds. (Photo by Michael Reilly)
Cy Frazier hooks up a chain on Monday to part of an oak tree that brought down utility lines when it fell across Mill Creek Church Road in Rockingham County on Friday. (Photo by Michael Reilly)
On Sunday, traffic still had to detour around a tree and power lines that were downed by Friday's storm. The tree fell across Port Republic Road in Port Republic. (Photo by Michael Reilly)
Rockingham County resident Marcia Geil relaxed Monday with a puzzle at a cooling station set up at the Grottoes Volunteer Fire Department. County residents in and around Grottoes were hit especially hard by the storm, with many still out of power a full four days after the storm blew through the central Valley. (Photo by Michael Reilly)


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