INJURY, POSSIBLY DEATH.
>> MY WIFE AND I BOTH STEPPED
BACK IN PANIC AND SHOCK.
LOWELL: A HUGE OF TREE CAME
CRASHING THROUGH HIS HOUSE, A
NASTY BATCH OF STORMS THURSDAY
NIGHT. SOME PRODUCING
STRAIGHT-LINE WINDS UP TO 79
MILES PER HOUR WORLD THROUGH THE
TIMONIUM AREA.
YET MOST WHEN OUTSIDE TO REMOVE
AN UMBRELLA FROM HIS DEATH BUT
DECIDED NOT TO.
>> IN THAT SECOND OF HESITATION
NOT GOING FORWARD IT PROBABLY
SAVED MY LIFE BECAUSE AT THAT
POINT, THIS TREE WHICH HAS A
THREE OR FOUR FOOT DIAMETER AT
THE BASE OF THE TREE CAME
CRASHING DOWN ON THIS ADDITION.
LOWELL: ERIC CARTMAN HAD -- ERIC
HARTMAN [INAUDIBLE]
>> THE NOISE WAS DEAFENING.
: THEY RESPONDED TO DOZENS OF
CALLS FOR DOWNED TREES AND POWER
LINES AND DEBRIS BLOCKING THE
ROAD.
44,000 WERE AFFECTED.
>> WE SEE A LOT OF TERRIBLE
THINGS THE BUSINESS WE'RE IN,
THERE IS NOT MUCH THAT IS WORSE
THAN THIS.
LOWELL: A 14-YEAR-OLD AT
COCKEYSVILLE MIDDLE SCHOOL WAS
KILLED WHEN A TREE FELL ON HOT
SPRING ROAD AT DEAR FOX LANE
ONTO THE CAR SHE WAS TRAVELING
IN.
TWO OTHER GIRLS, 16 AND 13 AS
WELL AS LAWRENCE'S MOTHER, THE
DRIVER WERE INJURED AND TAKEN TO
A HOSPITAL.
RESCUE CREWS HAD TO USE A CRANE
TO REMOVE THE TREE FROM THE CAR.
>> OUR FOCUS IN THE FIRE
DEPARTMENT WAS PROVIDING CARE TO
THE OTHER OCCUPANTS OF THE CAR,
THE OTHER YOUNG GIRLS WHO WERE
INJURED, THE MOTHER WHO
OBVIOUSLY WAS JIM -- EXTREMELY
EMOTIONALLY DISTRAUGHT.
LOWELL: AT THE HEIGHT OF THE
STORM 44,000 PEOPLE WERE WITHOUT
POWER.
B.G.E. SAYS 4000 PEOPLE STILL DO
NOT HAVE POWER, THEY EXPECT THE
MAJORITY OF THAT NUMBER TO HAVE
POWER BACK LATER THIS EVENING.
THEY REMIND FOLKS THERE ARE SOME
PEOPLE WHO WILL NOT HAVE POWER,
THOSE WITH INDIVIDUAL LINES
UNTIL THE END OF THE WEEKEND.
I AM LOWELL MELSER, WBAL-TV 11
NEWS.
DONNA: NOT FAR FROM WHERE THE
STORM MOVED THROUGH, RESIDENTS
ARE CLEANING UP MASSIVE STORM
DAMAGE.
JENNIFER FRANCIOTTI CONTINUES
OUR TEAM COVERAGE.
>> I EXPECTED TO SEE
SOME TREES DOWN BUT I DO NOT
EXPECT TO SEE A TREE IN OUR
HOUSE.
JENNIFER: THEY ARE GLAD THEY
WERE NOT INSIDE WITH THEIR YOUNG
KIDS WHEN IT'S THE IN THE SIDE
YARD WENT STRAIGHT THROUGH THEIR
MASTER BEDROOM.
>> THE ROOT BALL CAME UP FROM
THE HEAVY WINDS AND WILL OVER
THIS WAY THROUGH THE WALL OF THE
HOUSE THAT YOU CAN SEE RIGHT
THERE.
JENNIFER: LOUNGE CHAIRS POUND
TOGETHER IN THE GAP WHERE TREES
TOOK OVER.
JUST FEET AWAY, CREWS BEGAN THE
PAINSTAKING PROCESS OF REMOVING
A TREE THAT AIMS TO SMOTHER THIS
HOME.
GREXIT IS PRETTY BAD IT IS ALL
OVER THE ROOF.
JENNIFER: RESIDENTS OUT IN THE
LIGHT OF DAY TALKING ABOUT THE
VIOLENT STORM THAT HIT THE
TIMONIUM NEIGHBORHOOD.
>> THIS ONE WAS SO INTENSE IN
THE -- AND THE HAIL CAME DOWN
LIKE YOU WOULD NOT BELIEVE, WE
HAD QUARTER-SIZED HAIL INCLUDING
THE -- HITTING THE FLOOR OF THE
GROUND AND YOU COULD NOT SEE
ACROSS THE STREET.
>> IT WAS SO FORCEFUL IT WAS
LIKE A STRAIGHT WIND, IT WAS
LIKE DRIVING INTO A HURRICANE.
>> MY SON THOUGHT THERE WAS A
TORNADO AND YOU WAS TOLD IT
WASN'T AN NOT LONG AFTER THAT
THE TREE CAME DOWN.
JENNIFER: THAT TREE IS WALKING
THE ROAD, THE FAMILY IS GRATEFUL
THEY WERE NOT OUTSIDE OF THE
TIME AND KNOWING A 14-YEAR-OLD
GIRL WAS KILLED IN THE STORM
GIVE SOME PERSPECTIVE.