UPPER AUGUSTA TOWNSHIP -- It is a sound that could be heard in and around Sunbury Sunday, a chainsaw chopping up a tree taken down by the storm Saturday night.
Folks who've lived here for decades say they've never experienced anything quite like it.
"It kind of lifted a bit and it twisted and we could hear that snapped sound."
At least five trees fell on Chris Brumbach's farm in Upper Augusta Township, including one on a shed. She is still shaken up by how hard her place got hit.
"My husband tried to run out the door and we couldn't, the wind was that bad that we had to shut the door and just held onto each other," said Brumbach.
As the storm hit, the Brumbachs had a very unique concern, the fate of their two monkeys, Joseph and Shenoah, outside in their cage. A falling tree barely missed their home.
"Thank God, because we prayed and let me tell you prayer works because it did not hit the cages.
Another bit of good luck, the family business includes tree trimming.
Across the street, Jim Brumbach was repairing damage to his auction barn and bingo hall. He had thirty ladies playing bingo when the storm knocked out power and ripped off part of the roof.
"Were you worried that the roof would come off with all the bingo ladies there?"
"Well, hopefully it wouldn't, we were very fortunate nothing serious happened," Jim Brumbach said.
And on the tree-lined streets of Sunbury there was also plenty of damage.
"It sounded like the thunder was right here."
A branch hit the fence Cheryl Snyder had been planning to replace.
"So it knocked down the old fence, instead of the new one!"
Because that storm was so frightening, folks we spoke with wondered if it was a tornado, but the National Weather Service in State College said the damage was caused by straight-line winds, not a twister.