GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (WOOD) — Residents living in the area hardest hit by damaging Wednesday evening stormssay the storm’s intensity was strong but brief.
David Ferrier and his girlfriend Kate Masterson live on Fairview Avenue where winds from the storm tore the roof off an apartment building and caused significant damage to three other homes.
The impacted stretch of Fairview Avenue is in the Belknap neighborhood situated north of I-196 across the highway from the Michigan Avenue Medical Mile.
“It was over in a matter of moments,” Ferrier told News 8 while surveying the damage after the storm had passed. “It was like…car accidents, explosions. It was this huge, just noise.”
Ferrier said the noise stopped almost as suddenly as it started.
“It came out of nowhere,” he said. “It hit and then 20 minutes later it was gone.”
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