Wind wreaks havoc on Hansell farm

By: 
Kelly McGowan

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Sharon Burman got a call from the Franklin County Sherriff’s Department while at work Monday morning. Wind had badly damaged her home and property north of Hansell.
     “All they told me was there was a two-by-four sticking out of the roof,” she said.
     Her heart raced as she drove home to survey the damage, imagining the worst.
     She pulled up to her sunny yellow house and found an evergreen tree in front had snapped and fallen onto power lines. Two dogs followed as she and her husband Tom Burman, who had arrived at the scene moments earlier, took in the state of their home and land.
    Read the full article in the June 24 edition of the Hampton Chronicle.

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