The garage shown in the picture is just up the road from my house. I also live very close to the area where all the trees were twisted off. It was a very scary moment. My family and I were watching the warnings on TV. The sky started to get very dark and odd looking. The trees in back of our house were blowing in an odd way. Instead of swaying back and forth they were blowing around in kind of a circular pattern that I have never seen before. When the hail hit we knew something big was happening so we all headed to the basement to ride out the storm. It was very tense and frightening. I am happy there weren't any injuries. My heart does go out to the people that suffered property damage.

Wow! Thanks acadiashores for your discreptive story, something few Mainers never experience!

I'm glad it wasn't worse. Here in NC, this is a common occurrence and it usually happens just as acadiashores describes. It is a very eerie feeling like none other, I will never forget the first time one was near my house.

A few years ago, a tornado went right past my house. At first, there was a DEAD CALM...then Total chaos! Sounded like a train passing through my house! Very scary! No injuries, but it flipped a 4 wheeler over and threw my gas-grill into my neighbor's yard about 100 feet away. It was only an F-ZERO! I cannot even imagine an F-3 or anything worse!

Wow. I think the wind must have been blowing way more than 65mph. It blows that hard every winter and it doesn't blow the roof off. Thank God no one was nearby.

My husband and I witnessed, along with many neighbors, the swirling cloud, finger-type pieces seemed to fray from cloud. when they met! Instant funnel!

It was an awesome, but scary, sight to see! And we have at least 25 trees down around our home.

It's hard to believe a top wind of 65 mph would cause all that damage. When you look at the minimal structural damage in Eagle Lake with 110 mph winds, it makes you wonder if this f-zero tornado circulation may have been different than the one in EL. A few years ago we experienced straight-line 65 mph winds in EL and it took down three 80-ft snow-laden spruce trees on my property.

The trees it took down were very large hardwood trees. I have a hard time believing the winds were only 65mph. The garage it blew down was very sturdy as well. Some of the trees were completely uprooted, it would take tremendous force to do that.

So a tornado destroyed a garage and knocked down some trees...What did you expect the tornado to do? If it turned lawn clippings into cash then Id be impressed.