Five people escape uninjured as a farm machinery shed is blown into the air, landing 60 metres away.
"If the poles had have swung down with the concrete on as they were going across us, I am sure one of them would have collected one of us," Mr Lynch said.
He said the group raced to nearby utes and drove away from the area and into a paddock in case other sheds were torn apart.Farmer Mark Flannagan said seven power poles on the Pindar farm were snapped 'like carrots' during the sudden storm. Seven power poles on the farm at Pindar, about 450 kilometres north-east of Perth, also snapped off in the storm, cutting power to about 350 homes and businesses in the Pindar and Mullewa area, including the Mullewa townsite.
John Flannagan's brother and farming partner Mark Flannagan said he had not seen power poles damaged in that way before."To snap them midway, Jarrah poles, just in half is crazy."Bureau of Meteorology forecaster Angeline Prasad said the storm late Friday showed up on the organisation's imaging systems, but she could not say for sure whether the damage was caused by a tornado or a destructive 'downdraft'."All thunderstorms have downdrafts.
A spokeswoman for Western Power said crews worked over the weekend to restore power, and electricity was expected to have been restored to all customers in the area by Sunday night.
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