
At this time, the storm has not been called a tornado. It is thought to have been straight-line wind shears, microbursts, gusting from 90 to 105 mph. Here help arrives for a house with a huge tree squashing it after storms hammered Boonville, Indiana. Photo #1 by codepoet

Directly across from Boonville High School, on the students’ last day of school, they arrived to see this house squashed by a tree. Still, residents were fortunate that damage was not nearly so bad as so many tornado-ravaged areas thus far into 2011 throughout tornado alley. Photo #2 by codepoet

Help arrived a few hours after school started for this house squashed by an uprooted tree. Photo #3 by codepoet

Anyone with a chainsaw or in the tree cutting business had a booming day and will continue to be swamped with work for quite some time. Photo #4 by codepoet

Downed power and telephone lines, as well as massive trees were part of the reason that curious people were told not to go out and about during the night. It’s a good thing that some did. Sometimes people stuck in the dark need help, awaiting Good Samaritans. Power was still cut off for about 20,000 Vectren customers. They worked through the night though. Photo #5 by codepoet

Bummer – storm damage in southern Indiana, town of Boonville. Photo #6 by codepoet

I’m not sure if anyone lives in this house, not too familiar with the area. Photo #7 by codepoet

Lots of clean up in Boonville after a night storm ripped through on May 25, 2011. Someone had already broken out a chainsaw to cut limbs from this tree that had been over a road. Busy chainsaws could be heard all over the town. Photo #8 by codepoet

Another tree ripped from its roots during the strong storm. After it fell, the house next door caught fire. Photo #9 by codepoet

This was the burned out house the next morning. You gotta love firemen who go out to save people and fight fire while storms from hell are raging around them. Photo #10 by codepoet

Another giant tree attacking a house; trees were down all over after another severe storm tore through southern Indiana. Photo #11 by codepoet

Same house as above, but a different angle. The home owner, his contractor, and the tree remover told me that the dark substance showing on some broken tree branches was actually from carpenter ants and not lightning. Photo #12 by codepoet

The huge tree branch pierced the roof after another killer storm ripped through the Evansville / Boonville area. This home owner invited me inside and upstairs to see. Sure enough, a limb had slammed through the roof and was poking down from the bedroom ceiling. Photo #13 by codepoet

Driving around only to come to another blocked street that practically shouted, “You shall not pass!” There seemed to be trees down, uprooted, and blocking roadways and smashing homes all over Boonville. Photo #14 by codepoet

I had to get closer to the trees ripped from the ground. Photo #15 by codepoet

Yikes! Photo #16 by codepoet

Oops, I got a little too close to downed lines. Photo #17 by codepoet

The neighbor came out and told me a story. She was in her bathroom, taking cover in the bathtub, in the pitch darkness after the power went poof and she was praying hard. I’m sure it sounded terribly scary in this neighborhood. Numerous trees were uprooted and blocking the road. Photo #18 by codepoet

The lady who lived in this house was trapped inside and it’s not hard to see why. Either police or firemen came during the darkness while debris was wildly blowing about and had to break in to rescue her. Photo #19 by codepoet

What a bizarre sight, to see the huge base of roots from two trees sticking up like that. Gusting winds literally ripped the trees from their roots. Photo #20 by codepoet

If this was not a tornado, something wicked ripped through Boonville, Indiana, on May 25, 2011. Photo #21 by codepoet

More signs of storm damage. There were several houses, power lines and places of business that were roped off and bandaged with yellow police tape. Photo #22 by codepoet

1/3 of a super, massive, monster tree was ripped off, falling across a fence, hitting the roof, and then over another fence, and onto the next neighbor in line. 🙁 Photo #23 by codepoet

Employees at Scales Lake told me the road was closed, trees were down everywhere. These critters were escapees from the petting zoo after the storm. Photo #24 by codepoet

This donkey, another escapee from the petting zoo, made it pretty far from its “home.” Thankfully, most of the people in Boonville still have their homes. By the grace of God or good fortune, not one person was killed or even seriously injured. Photo #25 by codepoet