“Everything I owned was in that mobile home, and it’s gone. Now we’re looking for clothes to wear.”
Elier Dominguez, 24, whose home was destroyed on a farm outside Windsor
“The air was filled with brown debris. Everything was flying around. The roaring was so loud, especially in this metal building. Then we could hear the glass breaking. God has decided it’s just not my time to go.”
Sheila Shanks, 53, secretary at Windsor’s Quality Doors, who had just enough time to dive under her desk before the tornado struck
“We have every type of injury, broken bones, cuts, bruises, from everything from falling trees to broken glass hitting them. Only thing we are trying to figure out now is how many and how severe.”
Jolene Schneider, spokeswoman for the Windsor Fire Department
“We stood in the back of the shed, and the shed collapsed, and I was just hanging onto my wife for dear life.”
Rich Bruzewski, who was working on a shed with his wife at their farm in Gilcrest when the tornado struck
“You could see trees and light poles swirling around in that thing.”
Sgt. Joe Tymkowych, Greeley Police Department
“I heard things hitting the house and glass breaking. I got scared and went into the basement. The lights went out and everything started breaking.
“When I came back out, the roof was gone.”
Ken Huber, 48, who was uninjured when the tornado passed over his concrete-block home south of Windsor
“Twenty to 30 cows had to be put down, and probably more calves will go tonight. Some were trapped. Some had broken legs. The vets did the right thing.”
Rick Hertzke, after reviewing a collapsed barn in a dairy farm on his land outside Windsor
“You think of, like, movies and all the bad things that could happen. You think, ‘I’ll never see my parents again.’ It was freaky.”
Logan Anderson, 14, who was home alone as the storm hit
“It was a sweet, old tree. We always thought it would go south. It went north.”
Janine Willey, chairwoman of the Windsor Tree Board, who lost a 70-foot-tall spruce. Half smashed a gable, and the rest flew off and crushed a gazebo.
