Bass Lake neighbors clean up after Monday night's storm - ABC57

BASS LAKE, Indiana -- Bass Lake was hit hard by storms Monday night as winds up to 70 mph toppled trees and branches, downed power lines and destroyed entire docks and overturned boats.

"Last night was chaos," said John Brooke, owner of C&H Tree Service, who got caught in the middle of the storm on his way to a construction site. He said he had to cut down at least two trees before he could do it.

Things got busier the day after the storm, he said.

"Everything started falling apart and I got call after call. Around the block, a guy had a piece of spear on his roof, so it was sort of this big hole," Brooke said, gesturing to show the size of the hole.

"So how many calls did you have to make?" " I asked.

"It's my fifth," he replied.

The house where I met Brooke was lucky, he says; felled two trees there in early August that the owner feared would fall on the house in the next big storm.

One cabin on Boa Drive was less fortunate: Its owner, Terrence Ryan, told me his niece called him last night with the bad news.

"Fortunately there's not a lot of damage, but there's enough that there's a hole in the roof, water in the house, etc.," Ryan said. "We have a lot of cleaning to do."

Ryan added that luckily no one was hurt and the damage was repairable.

Other houses didn't come out so easily. At 210 South County Road, part of the roof of a chalet was blown off along with part of its roof. Neighbors told me that the owner had just finished remodeling the property.

Although Bass Lake has seen many powerful storms, some believe they may have been the worst in a long time.

"We've had storms and I usually get a call or two but it's been one after the other and they all have property damage so I'd say it's a lot more serious than I've seen in the past two months Brooke said, adding that it could take a week or two to repair any damage.

Brooke recommended that if homeowners have trees nearby and are concerned about them falling onto the property, they call a specialist as soon as possible.

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