I was near one of the vendor booths. Although I was keeping tabs on the rain with the Doppler app on my phone, there was no indication of the wind coming. Shortly after the rain started, the winds came through with enough force to pretty much destroy most of the vendors canopies. The wind was so strong it blew tables across the square, twisted the canopies into piles of twisted metal and even caused one vendors sign to be embedded into a palm tree trunk about 50' away from his booth. I know it is going to take time for many of the vendors time to get back to business as usual. The emergency crews showed up in very short time to treat any injuries but thankfully, nobody was hurt. All that was left was a long wet cleanup.
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Oswego, NY
Love The Villages
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