By OLIVIA BERGMEIER
Lead Reporter - Salina Post
Although the mightiest storms of the Great Plains missed the city of Salina, some residents still saw severe storm damage.
David Schwartztraub, a resident from the 200 block of South 11th Street, said through curtains of rain on Monday evening, he heard a loud crash and, after the storm passed, ventured outside and saw a large branch across his front porch awning.
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"All of a sudden, everything just came crashing down," Schwartztraub said. "I had never seen anything like that. I was looking out the front door and couldn't see out the door with all the rain blowing around so hard."
After Schwartztraub assessed the damage to his home and found another large branch across his backyard fence, he viewed his neighbors and saw little or no storm damage at their houses.
Schwartztraub knew that no tornadoes hit the city, but the roar of the wind and rain made him feel like he was in the middle of a twister.
"Nothing [else] in this neighborhood was damaged," Schwartztraub said.
One of the two large branches that fell crashed across Schwartztraub's porch, snapped his flag pole in half, but missed the house's roof. The other fell across his fence to the backyard.