Patricia Huggins composes herself as she describes how a tree ripped through her roof, damaging much of her home on Truman Street during Monday's storm. "It felt like an earthquake," she said. Huggins said lightning also hit the home, cracking one of the walls in the living room.
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Carter Chaplin was outside his home on Truman Street when a tree crashed on his front yard narrowly missing his home. "It's amazing it didn't hit the house," he said. "I know it was God's will that it landed the way it did."
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A tree that fell during Monday's storm blocks the intersection of Maple and Monroe Streets in Columbia, Tuesday, July 22, 2008.
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A telephone and signal pole on Truman Street.
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A tree that fell on power lines during Monday's storm blocks the intersection of Maple and Monroe Streets in Columbia on July 22, 2008.
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Carter Chaplin was outside his home on Truman Street when a tree crashed on his front yard narrowly missing his home. "It's amazing it didn't hit the house," he said. "I know it was God's will that it landed the way it did."
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Rusty Miller looks at the damage to his home on Adger Road after an afternoon storm knocked down trees throughout Heathwood and the surrounding area July 21, 2008.
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Mike Garvin clears tree limbs from the middle of Wyndham Road in Columbia after an afternoon storm knocked down trees throughout the surrounding area on July 21, 2008.
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Residents of Wyndham Road clear tree limbs from the middle of the road after an afternoon storm knocked down trees throughout Heathwood and the surrounding area July 21, 2008.
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Cars avoid a dangling tree limb as they make their way down Trenholm Road July 21, 2008. An afternoon storm knocked down trees throughout Heathwood and the surrounding area.
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