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- ABC News
- December 19, 2018
Images shows damage from tornado in Washington
A number of buildings in Port Orchard have been destroyed.
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A number of businesses and homes were damaged, Mark Dorsey, director of public works in Port Orchard, told ABC News.
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A 911 call in Katsap County made after 2 p.m. detailed a tornado \"taking over a building and taking down some trees\" in Port Orchard.
In one video taken in the doorway of a Safeway grocery store, witnesses are heard expressing shock as they watch a huge funnel cloud wreak havoc in the distance.
\"There's like debris everywhere,\" the person behind the camera said, adding that she was scared.
“There’s like debris everywhere.”
— ABC News (@ABC) December 18, 2018
Officials in Port Orchard, Washington, confirm a tornado touched down this afternoon as severe storms pound the Pacific Northwest. There were no immediate reports of any injuries. https://t.co/FmfgEnqmrx pic.twitter.com/eSd5Vl9zzC
Several posts to social media showed down trees in the wake of the tornado.
— zargoman (@zargoman) December 18, 2018
Resident Richard Raymond told ABC Seattle affiliate KOMO that he escaped his home right before a tree fell on top of it.
Richard Raymond says he just got out of his house before three trees fell onto it. #KOMOnews pic.twitter.com/5ZA8fWKhcU
— Jordan Treece (@JTreece406) December 18, 2018
There have been no reports of injuries, Dorsey said. The city is now working on getting downed power lines and roads filled with debris cleared, he said
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Dorsey said that while the city's emergency operations prepare for tornadoes often, he has not experienced one for the past 50 years he's lived there.
\"This doesn't happen here,\" he said.
ABC News' Fergal Gallagher, Melissa Griffin and Alyssa Pone contributed to this report.
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