Quincy cleaning up after Monday storms

Posted on July 14, 2015
Storm damage
Damage was severe in Quincy Monday night. (Photo courtesy Jack Pluta/KHQA-TV)

By Alex Degman/Illinois Radio Network

QUINCY – A river town on the Mississippi is cleaning up after straight line winds and severe storms tore through.

“It looks like someone crosscut a forest.” That’s how 8 year Quincy resident Jason Parrott characterized the severe weather that passed through — his shed was destroyed, an 8 foot wide tree uprooted — but it could have been worse.

“There have been no reports of serious injuries and no fatalities,” said Parrott. “People are just amazed that there were no injuries and deaths in that regard.”

More than 30,000 people were without power in Adams County at the height of the storm, Quincy Mayor Kyle Moore declared a state of emergency. Elsewhere, several funnel clouds were reported in LaSalle County — with the majority of damage coming by hail in Marsailles.

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