Baldwin City resident Mike Brungardt had called the city Thursday about a tree in his front yard, concerned that if the old tree went down, it would take out a power line.

He watched in amazement around 1:15 a.m. Friday when half of that scenario played out, as a storm pummeled Baldwin City.

“I looked out and it was hanging over the lines and was going,” Brungardt said. “Then the tree did a pirouette and fell where it is. It missed almost everything. It didn’t take the power line and didn’t hit any of the planters. It did take the cable line and that little maple tree.

“The Lord works in strange and mysterious ways.”

Friday morning’s storm also knocked out power in Tonganoxie for an estimated two to three hours, said fire Capt. John Callaghan.

“About a third to half of town was without power,” he said.

Southwest of Tonganoxie, Stephanie Maurer said, rain collected in her living room. But her roof was intact.

“The windows were still intact, but it pulled the windows,” Maurer said about the storm. “And water got in the house.”

At one point during the storm, Maurer checked on a window in her daughters’ bedroom.

“It felt like the whole window was going to be sucked out,” she said. “The pressure was unbelievable.”

The storm flattened a nearby corrugated metal barn. In addition, a nearby tree was uprooted and the family’s trampoline was found tattered and twisted in another tree.

In the Basehor-Linwood school district, classes at Glenwood Ridge Elementary School were canceled because the building had no power throughout Friday.

“We lost an outdoor storage building and there is probably some electric motors that were burned out,” Superintendent Bob Albers said.