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$500,000 StormDamage Comes ToHoffman EstatesHigh winds ripped through the wuth-oust end of Hoffman Rotates Friday night demolishing homes and causing an estimated $300,000 in damages, but not one injury was reported.The path of destruction began at Berkley Lane near Grand Canyon Parkway, hop-scotching its way toward Conant High School, which went untouched by the storm.But not so at Fair view Elementary School. 146 Arizona Blvd.. which was extensively damaged when large roof sections were tom from the building and windows were broken throughout.Personal property damage was most severe in the duplex homes along Berkley Lane and Grissom streets, and in Parcel C at the Buckeye Dnvc-Chtmdler Lane intersection.Gas lines were broken sending residents fleeing from their homes across the area, and electrical lines were down leaving large pockets of the community without power. A transformer damaged on Bode Road west of Roselle Road sent sparks into the air, lighting the sky during the early hours Saturday until Commonwealth Edison crew workers could begin servicing the area.“We didn't lurte a damn fire, f don't know how lucky we can get.” said Chief Carl Sclke of the Hoffman Estates Fire fighters worked well into the night on salvage efforts white police and civil defense personnel provided additional aid.But Selke. whose home suffered serious damage, like most in the midst of the tornado-like onslaught, was most amazed by the void of injuries.He said the wind began its ripping path at about II p m. Friday and had cleared the area in less than two minutes.Damage began on Berkley Lane wherea construction trailer was lifted into the air and smashed into a duplex bemg built there Both were demolished.The roofs were lifted off several residences along Berkley Lane and dozens of windows were broken as the high wind moved across to Grissom Street in the same destructive fashionIronies were great during the after-math where duplex homes were viewed with one unit destroyed by the storm while the other unit, joined by a common wad, was left totally Intact.Then, in a selective like way, the winds “decapitated a house at 138 W. Bode Rd.; toppled the steeple of the First Christian Church of Hoffman Estates, Illinois Boulevard and Roselle Road; and tore apart a large section of the house at 105 Forest View Ln.Looking Saturday at Cumberland Street ^ homes that back onto Roselle Road it could be seen where the frames of picket fences were left standing while homes there were near buried in the debris of pointed wooden strips, fallen trees, and a storage shed lifted off its foundation and sent flying across a backyard there.Across the entire Parcel C subdivision were sporadic scenes of demolished cars, collapsed garages, and devastated swimming pools. Also plentiful were fallen trees and antennas and broken windows.Yet, no place .was hit worse than the two homes at 103 and 105 Buckeye Dr., where the roofs and wall sections were torn clear of the homes occupied by li persons.A swimming pool was found sitting atop a telephone pole behind the two dwellings Friday night and strips of aluminum siding were still hanging from the wires on Saturday,
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