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Twenty Blackbirds Restaurant on Route 522 in Flint Hill. “It peeled off a good portion of our tin roof, just curled it up like a sardine can. We all got in the basement, it was that scary. I don’t scare very easily.”
At the height of the storm at 6 p.m., none of his customers had shown up, he said.
“The hail was fast, furious and horizontal,” he said. Strangely, only one mile away at his home, there was no damage, Deluise said.
At nearby Public House two of its 10 downed trees fell on the roof of the restaurant and one on the deck.
“It was scary,” said owner John Pearson, “the worse storm I have ever seen.
“We had a wedding at noon the next day and we pulled if
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