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"The cleanup was under way in York on Wednesday after a powerful storm snapped trees, utility poles and damaged numerous homes.Click here to watch the reportThe storm left more than 7,000 people in York without power Tuesday night, but as of Wednesday morning there were fewer than 500 outages remaining.Click here for storm damage picturesPolice were asking people to avoid York Street Wednesday morning as crews try to clean up the damage.\"It was very very quick. It got very dark and very loud,\" said resident Linda Coburn.Coburn said the storm hit too close to home. A tree slammed into her roof, while she and her husband sat inside.Watch the report\"(A) huge crash and I saw the living room ceiling come down. Water just came through the house, and the ceiling came down. And I turned to go back down the hall, and the bathroom ceiling came down. That's when it got pretty chaotic,\" said Coburn.The storm damaged several homes on Raydon Road. Crews scrambled to clean up the mess before sunset.\"A lot of trees down. We couldn't get the apparatus to certain areas. We had to cut the tops off some trees to get down through town,\" said Fire Chief Chris Balentine.The storm pulled trees out of the ground, some landed on cars, while others were left scattered on the tops of homes.\"It sounded like a roar. It was coming down so hard I thought it was hailing,\" said Rev. Verlee Copeland with the First Parish Congregational Church.Copeland said her church was struck by lightning. The steeple's clock is stuck at 5:20 p.m. Cars in the driveway were barely recognizable under the debris.\"People have called and said can we come now can we bring chain saws?\" said Copeland.Neighbors will continue to survey the damage on Wednesday as light brings a fresh start, and the cleanup begins.\"Were waiting for daylight so we can get support for those trees so they don't hurt anybody when they come down,\" said Copeland."^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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