Monday night storm hits Royal area hardest

Broken branches and shattered windows are the result of the Monday night storm that hit Royal while in its path.

Terri Hergert of Royal recalled sitting in her livingroom watching tv when glass shattered everywhere from a tree branch entering in through her dining room window.

“The tree branch was only about the size of my arm and just as long, but it made a sound like a gun going off,” Hergert comments.

The branch came from a cottonwood tree across the street and entered a south window causing damage inside and outside the house.

“We’re just lucky there wasn’t any rain or we would have been flooded,” she said.

Other tree branches laid in the street from the severe storm, but no other damage was reported.