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Perry County woman describes terrifying experience driving home, involving fallen trees


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A local woman shares what it was like driving though those violent storms in our region, Thursday afternoon.

A tornado warning was issued for several counties.

The storm was rough, packed with high winds, hail, and rain.

Suli Goodlief was in Perry County, driving to Port Royal from Liverpool, when she hit rough weather.

It was the drive home back to Liverpool that scared her.

"Look at that, oh my god," Goodlief exclaimed, while filming the damage on her cell phone along 322 in Perry County.

"All these trees were down," Goodlief said. "If I hadn’t pulled off when we did, I’m terrified of what would have happened to me and my children. Like, it was that intense. It was a once in a lifetime experience I never hope to have again."

She pulled over during the storm, headed home with her three children.

It passed through Perry County, into Dauphin, and plowed through Lebanon County.

"Sounded like the windows in my minivan were gonna break, just sheets of rain, sheets of rain," Goodlief said. "The trees were blowing everywhere."

Debris from the storm was left across our region.

In Little Buffalo, Perry County, there were down wires and tree branches everywhere.

Route 443 in Dauphin County was blocked by a tree, downed on the road.

Goodlief says if she didn't pull over when she did, she believes her family would have been crushed by the falling trees.

"You don’t see the perimeter of it," Goodlief said, describing driving up to the storm. "You don’t know you’re actually in it until it’s on you on top of you. You can’t see the edge of it until you drive through, and it’s blue skies, not a single rain drop. It’s totally weird."

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