The morning after one of the most intense tornadoes recorded in New Jersey history all but demolished the largest dairy farm in the state, owners Marianne and Wally Eachus looked at each other and just cried.
Damage to Wellacrest Farms is shown after a tornado passed through the area earlier in Mullica Hill, N.J., on Thursday, Sept. 2, 2021. The remnants of Hurricane Ida dumped historic rain over in the Northeast, with several deaths linked to flooding in the region as basement apartments suddenly filled with water and freeways and boulevards turned into rivers, submerging cars. Just 12 hours earlier, the couple was eating dinner when cellphone.
They ran to the basement just in time for the EF3 tornado, one of at least eight that ripped through parts of New Jersey and Pennsylvania during last week’s storm, to pass over. Barely three minutes went by, and it was gone. When the owners of Wellacrest Farms in Mullica Hill, a suburb of Philadelphia, came out of their basement along with other family on their homestead, they saw that two of their massive grain silos had toppled over. Some barns were completely reduced to concrete, roofs ripped off others, equipment was demolished, uprooted trees crashed into the old farmhouse.And hundreds of cows were trapped under collapsed barns. Thirteen have died, a couple dozen more suffered injuries.
Somehow, there were no additional deaths on the dairy farm from the tornado. But the storm also produced
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