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Published May 31, 2011, 12:00 AM

Memorial Day storm damage

Images from a storm which brought damaging winds to Bridgewater and outside Salem.


Kurt Stiefvater looks at damage on his farm northeast of Salem caused by Monday evening’s storm, with his daughters Megan and Lauren. (Photos By Chris Huber/Republic)

  • Kurt Stiefvater looks at damage on his farm northeast of Salem caused by Monday evening’s storm, with his daughters Megan and Lauren. (Photos By Chris Huber/Republic)
  • Kendra Watters takes a picture of her siblings Shayna and Brenden as the stand in the hole from an uprooted tree in their backyard of their house on the corner of 4th Street and Poplar Avenue in Bridgewater.
  • Christopher Thompson jumps into the kiddie pool at his home in Bridgewater as Hailey Williams Hannah Thompson look on. In the background a bent trampoline can be seen after winds from the storm lifted it into the air over the Thompson house and set down on the other side.
  • A small horse shelter was flipped into the roads by winds Monday evening West of Bridgewater.
  • Brothers Eian and Nathan Schreg with American Family Insurance adjuster Richard Finley look on as a 50 foot poplar tree fell into the side Audrey Schreg's house in Bridgewater. According the brothers their mother Audrey said it "shock the house like crazy," when the tree hit but little damage to the house was visable.
  • A large tree in rural Salem was split by the damaging winds.
  • The farm of Gregor and Gayle Streff received heavy damage from the storm.