DUNBAR -  A horse rescue farm at Dunbar was among those assessing damage after the December 15 storm produced winds in excess of 70 mph.

JJ Johnson moved with her family to Dunbar just two weeks ago.

Johnson: “We had – I don’t know if a tornado, but big winds came through. Big trees came down on our garage, our hay shed, our tack shed. We have MJM Horse rescue and we’ve lost a lot.”

She said her son, Matt, was downstairs  and said it didn’t sound like a tornado.

Johnson: “All of our horses are okay. They’re having fun now. They’re out their playing in the mud, but they are all okay. Now we just have to find a place to put hay or even if we can save the hay, I don’t know.”

She said the winds picked fast and all the damage was done in about five minutes.

 

As the sunset on a day of severe weather, county and state law enforcement officials were responding to overturned trucks and semi-trailers on Highway 2 in Nebraska and Iowa.

A grain bin had blown about a half mile from its foundation south of the highway near Otoe. The grain bin owner brought a skid loader to sit on top of the grain bin to keep it from blowing into the roadway.

Elsewhere, a steel roof was reported blocking Highway 4 near Table Rock.

Large diameter trees were uprooted in Nemaha County and Sterling.

There were reports of dust coming up from Kansas and by 6 p.m. officials were responding to fire calls near the border. Officials called off a fire call to Humboldt realizing the smoke was coming from an unknown source. They received reports that there was a fire in Kansas.