Sometime during the wee hours of Friday morning, December 1, high winds tore off the roof of an outbuilding owned by Willie E. “Nick” Lee, Highway 52 By-Pass, in Lafayette.
“Our neighbor called Friday morning and asked if we knew the roof was off our shed,” Nick's wife said, pointing toward the now open-air metal structure sitting behind the couple's home. “I woke up and heard the wind about eleven o'clock, but I never thought about anything like that happening!”
The Lee's metal roof is now a mangled pile of debris, where it landed about a hundred yards from the structure that housed Nick's tractor and farm equipment business, until he retired a couple of years ago.
Predicted wind speeds Friday were only 15 to 20 miles per hour, but the howling heard as the midnight hour approached Thursday, and the damage reported, suggest wind gusts higher than predicted.
Despite the close proximity to the outbuilding, the Lee home escaped damaged, and neighboring structures were spared.
Benton Bartley, Highland Rd., Lafayette, lost the back of his feed barn roof sometime during last week's wind storms.
“That barn's been there 60 years without anything like that happening to it,” said Macon County Sheriff's Deputy Mark Bartley, of his dad's damaged feed barn roof.
“We don't even know where all of it is yet, the Deputy added.
Other isolated incidents of wind damage are being talked about across the county, including an unconfirmed story of the wind slinging an empty dog house out of a pen, but no storm related injuries were reported.
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