See storm damage in northern Columbia County

Posted: April 15, 2019 - 11:18am

A gusty storm blew through the area early Monday morning, downing trees and power lines, demolishing at least one barn, ripping apart a borough shed and destroying a hangar. Shortly after the storm passed through the Benton area, the clubhouse at the Mill Race Golf Course started ablaze. Here's a collection of the photographs Chief Photographer Keith Haupt has taken so far.

We'll have lots more in Tuesday's Press Enterprise.

Collection Photographer: 
Keith Haupt
A high-wing airplane was tossed by the heavy winds that blew through the Benton area early Monday morning. The damaging winds tore apart the hangar for the plane, along with the Benton Borough maintenance shed at the airport. Very little is left standing of the clubhouse at Mill Race Golf Course. Flames tore through the building early Monday, burning it to the ground High winds flipped this trailer onto its roof in the Berlin Trailer Park on Everett Street in Benton. One person was taken from the trailer and transported to the hospital. Wind snapped a stand of pine trees and blew them across the parking lot of the Mill Race Golf Course Monday morning. Fire crews battle a blaze at Mill Race Golf Course's clubhouse early Monday morning. A hangar at the Benton Airport was torn from its supports early Monday morning. A crew from PPL arrives to deal with the downed power lines near the Millville High School. Brian Hornberger, youth director for the Mill-Green UMC in Millville, removes the branches from a pine tree that barely missed the church home. Josh Allen helps family members remove debris that was blown from this Applegate Road barn.

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