Dust storm topples trees, damages buildings in Tulare County

The particulate has settled successful Tulare County aft a upwind tempest swept done Monday afternoon.

At Porterville High School, crews are repairing a portion of the extortion of the wrestling country aft the beardown gusts tore it from the building.

An ABC30 insider captured the aggravated scene.

The territory says the portion that peeled backmost was a protective foam furniture - and the extortion itself is inactive intact.

The tempest besides knocked down trees successful Woodlake and Corcoran, wherever Splash Circus is preparing to open.

A video captured the moments the particulate tempest moved through, bending immoderate of the poles, and tearing parts of the tent.

"I don't deliberation it was adjacent 10 minutes but it felt similar hours with the particulate upwind blowing, a small spot of rainfall everything flying around," said Amauri Silva with Splash Circus.

Silva says helium and 3 others were connected apical of the tent, moving to assemble it, arsenic the upwind blew in.

"Once I looked back, I adjacent get goosebumps now. It was similar thing we've ever experienced," Silva said.

The unit was hard astatine enactment Tuesday afternoon, reinforcing the structure and clearing retired debris portion besides counting their blessings.

"That's wherever God wanted the centrifugal location to beryllium and if it had been 2 feet person the histrion would person the histrion would person landed connected apical and my nephew was inside," said Silva.

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