Crime & Safety
VIDEO: Community Cleaning Up After Severe Thunderstorm
Stone Street man says tree landed on five cars; he pulled sixth car out.
Cuyahoga Falls Electric has crews out repairing broken polls and down power lines after last night's severe thunderstorm that included reports of funnel clouds.
As of 7:30 a.m., several streets still had no power including: Highland Avenue, Hanover Street, Tutor Street and Searl Street.
As for traffic detours, report barricades were placed on Riverview Road between Bath and Ira, and at 9th Street and Jefferson, where trees are down and repairs are taking place.
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Repairs are expected to take quite some time.
Rick Bower, of Stone Street in Cuyahoga Falls, said he was headed for the basement Wednesday night to seek shelter from the storm, when he heard a tree come down on his driveway. He described what he saw in the video above.
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A branch of a large oak covered five cars in the driveway afterword, including a camper and a pickup truck. The cars were scarcely visible from an adjacent porch.