BREAKING: St. Albans Vermont Reeling From Wind Storm: Houses Suffer Severe Damage

This house on Pearl Street in St. Albans, Vermont when
a huge tree fell on it during last night's windstorm

 I had a good look around my home town of St. Albans, Vermont this morning and early afternoon, and geez, Louise!  

I'm sure St. Albans will come in as perhaps the worst hit community from last night's severe windstorm. 

Two large houses on Pearl Street in St. Albans City are either extensive damaged or destroyed. Each house had a large tree fall  on it. In a separate case just off Pearl Street, a mobile home was crushed by a falling tree. 

One of the two large houses appears to have the back half of its roof and second floor crushed by the immense fallen poplar tree.  

Parts of the tree shattered, flinging branches onto an adjacent home, which appears to have minor damage.

A tree trimmer at the severely damaged house said all occupants escaped unharmed. It is unclear how many people were inside at the time. 

Just up the street, The back end of what appears to be an apartment building had his back end smashed in by another immense poplar. Behind a separate parking lot a mobile home was crushed beneath a tree,

The back end of this apartment building on Pearl
Street in St. Albans Vermont was crushed by
a falling tree during last night's wind storm

On Barlow Street, a large, uprooted spruce tree rested against a two story home. That structure appears to have only minor damage. 

Along High Street, several large trees toppled, but appeared to either miss homes in the neighborhood or just brush past them. 

Tree trimmers, Green Mountain Power and Vermont Gas were on the street as of noon, making safety inspections, repairing electrical lines and cutting up the trees. 

Trees are down all over town. It appears mostly large poplars, spruces and maple trees fell. Side streets are littered with branches. As of 12:30 the traffic lights downtown at the intersection of Main and Fairfield streets were not working. 

Green Mountain Power crews were also on Upper Newton Street near the Franklin County Senior Center repairing lines after an immense spruce street fell on them. The spruce appears to have caused minor damage to a house on the way down.