“Flooding of the roads, like the Second Street bridge, was the bigger issue,” said Pruismann.

“Mostly the city parks were flooding,” he said, “the drains couldn’t keep up.”

Rainfall was widely varied, Pruismann said, with reports of about an inch of rain in Ellsworth, while Blairsburg and Stratford had around three inches.

However, Larry and Elaine Brim experienced much more property damage from the trees that fell just before 5 a.m.

Limbs poked through the garage roof and many limbs hit the roof of their home. They lost power for most of the day, but it was restored shortly after 4 p.m., according to Elaine Brim. Work will continue on Thursday patching the hole in their garage roof.

The three trees that went down during the storm will take longer to clean up, she said.

“We’ll have to get a tree service to take them down the rest of the way,” Brim said. The trees that went down won’t be replaced easily. “It won’t be in our lifetime,” she said.

“There were a lot of power outages that Webster City dealt with,” said Pruismann, “but the city line department did a great job getting out to fix those quickly.”

Dylan Hagen, Webster County Emergency Management coordinator, said the Webster City airport registered winds of around 76 mph, while Kamrar had gusts of 63 mph.