Gov. Ted strickland toured the area yesterday, in the wake of a line of Saturday-night storms that left death, destruction and devastation in Millbury and Lake Township.

 

Large areas of the roof and the upper part of the east side of the high school building have been destroyed and scattered over a wide area.  School buses were heavily damaged and at least one was lifted into the air and tossed some one hundred feet or more from where it was parked. The high school stadium light poles and other facilities were severely damaged. Pieces of wood from the roof of that building and other buildings hammered by the tornado were strewn across SR 795 around the northern gate.

 

Graduation day was scheduled Sunday at the high school fieldhouse, but was postponed. Amanda Nuckols of Millbury, who is among the Lake High Class of 2010, stood along the side of westbound SR 795 outside the high school and surveyed the massive damage just after the storm.

 

"I was supposed to graduate there," Nuckols told The Press.

"It seems almost unbelievable that a force of nature, in a matter of a few seconds, can do the amount of damage it has done," Gov. Strickland said. He declared a state of emergency in Wood County, along with Fulton County, which was also hit by storms.

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