Tornado sends neighbor’s roof crashing through Lincoln family’s kitchen

The Bermudez family had just finished dinner in their home near SW 36th and West A Street Sunday night when a chunk of a neighbor’s roof went crashing through their kitchen window. 

“Boom you hear the glass, and I thought it was the hot tub that got sucked up through,” Anthony Bermudez said as he showed Channel 8 Eyewitness News the damage in his kitchen. “I snuck up here, see the tub wasn’t here, and it was somebody’s roof that went through the back of the house.”

Bermudez says the debris landed just feet from where his family had been moments earlier. Thankfully nobody was injured. 

The Bermudez family wasn’t the only one affected by Sunday’s storm. 

Courtney Piccoli got a call nobody wants to get when they’re out of their home. 

“My husband called me in the middle of it and said the kitchen just exploded,” Piccoli, who lives in the neighborhood. 

High winds blew through the entire block, bulldozing fences in several yards. The neighborhood began picking up the pieces Monday morning.

“They just got that put back together, but this was actually wedged in there and it was like totally destroyed,” Piccoli said as she pointed to a chunk of her fence. 

While the neighborhood may be in pieces, Piccoli says the storm brought its residents together, as neighbors pitched in to help neighbors. 

“Literally moment’s after it was done, it seemed like there was a giant crew of people helping out the neighbors that were worse affected,” her husband, Tony Piccoli said.