Lee Center continues painstaking task of post-storm cleanup

Lee Center, New York (WSYR-TV) - Folks in the Oneida County village of Lee Center are cleaning up following Wednesday’s storms that blew down power lines and many trees, some of which landed on some homes. Many residents consider themselves fortunate, despite the damage done to their homes. “Three trees fell on my home - I heard a rumble, and I thought it was thunder,” says homeowner John Olmstead. Olmstead only saw what had fallen onto his home the following morning. It was a similar story for Michelle Pickett. “A neighbor's tree fell on my garage; my son and I were sleeping - he's been sick so he was in my bed - and we just thought thunder shook the house. We had the sheets pulled and we didn't know it was on the house until the next morning,” she says. That mess has been picked up. And now, to be safe, Michelle has... [read full story]