Greece neighborhood severely damaged by strong winds, fallen trees, and broken electric lines

Greece, New York – After powerful storms tore through the region for a second day in a row, hundreds of people in Greece are still without electricity and there are uprooted trees and downed power lines.

“It could’ve hurt my mom, it could’ve hurt my dogs — it really could’ve killed someone, honestly — but I guess Mother Nature had other plans,” Bethany Prunoske said.

Prunoske claims it’s nerve-wracking and that the damage at her Maiden Lane property is much worse than she had imagined.

“Our deck, part of it is coming undone, we have a sail to block out the sun, there’s a hole in that,” Prunoske said. “Talking to my mom, the garage is intact — shingle-wise, we don’t know what the roof looks like.”

According to a neighbor, a tree was uprooted in her backyard and tore off the side of her back porch, but it missed her house by only inches. Instead, it struck her garage. Along with downed power lines, her neighbor across the street also has a tree uprooted from his backyard. Many of the neighbors lack electricity.

“As you can hear around the neighborhood, most people have generators — so I got home, gassed up the generator, so luckily we can still run the AC, fridge,” Mike Stewart said.

Stewart claims that as strong gusts and rain tore through the area, his wife was at home with the children.

“It started to get pretty bad and windy and about that time she went down to the basement and then heard a big crash,” he said.

In the event, electricity cables collapsed next to his children’s toys as a result of an uprooted tree that fell from his neighbor’s yard.

“It took out the fence that kind of divides our property and the school behind us. So it’s the school’s fence, unfortunately,” Stewart said. “Just missed our fence by a few inches. We did have a little bit of damage to our shed and trampoline.”

According to Prunoske, her mother is having the uprooted tree removed Friday morning from her backyard. Stewart said they’re hoping for a quick return of their power.