Stephanie Parker 
A matter of seconds before straight-line winds took down utility poles along Route 140 trapping dozens of motorists, Christian Eckhardt was standing outside his Westminster home watching the storm when his sister called from Florida warning him to take cover, and he barely made it to his front door.
“It was just a sheer of wet and vertical wind and that must have been the wind, itself, that came up here and caused the damage,” said Eckhardt.
“So if you had stayed outside another 60 seconds?” we asked.
“You bet. I would have flown away,” he replied.
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