Great photos Jill. I love Patch!!!

Can you provide the source classifying this as a microburst?

Last night, radar indicated wind speeds of 96mph at the 400ft level, whereas in a microburst the highest wind speeds are at ground level, and the wind speed above ground level is usually in the vertical and does not register the same way as the horizontal winds 400ft above ground level.

The term has a very specific definition, and the National Weather Service has not identified it as anything other than a severe thunderstorm.

Two White Oak Estates families would like to thank John Rizzo, from River's Edge, who came over just to see if anyone needed help. He stayed for a few hours and helped with the removal of two, large fallen trees. Thanks, John! We so appreciated your help. Rick, Brenda, Mike, and Carol

From Megan Gessler: I would like to thank Kevin Childs for coming over with his chainsaw to help cleanup our backyard on West Center Street! Our neighbors John and Rhonda Frantz for helping today too. It was nice to see my block of neighbors out last night with flashlights checking on each other. What a crazy past 20 hours or so!

From Amy Kosulic: I would like to thank everyone who helped my husband at Cedardell. They must have 50 trees down. It is going to take weeks to clean up.

From Jen Slepicka: I'd like to thank my Mom, Stephanie Weber, for answering the phone and calming me as my son and I sat in the empty tub with a flash light and an ipod. She was the voice I needed as the house shook and the windows were pummeled with hail. Tree branches bounced off our roof.. What a scary storm. Thanks Mom. You kept me calm. :)

I live in the house on Madison that you picture. We call that our tree cloud hanging from the wires. Since it's not affecting anything, it's still hanging there at 7 PM Saturday. I saw you taking the picture. You should have come around the back of the house. The trees are destroyed. I have a bunch of pictures I'll be putting up on my blog, when I get to it. More trees to haul. I thought the brush pick up announcement for Monday was pretty funny. Mine is 65 feet long, 10 feet wide and 6 feet tall with some 20 foot branches in it. They could either pick it up, or it can sit there and rot forever for all I care.

Ken- It's your neighbor in the court, Jen (and my little boy Ryan.) We call your tree in the lines the "broccoli tree". I know you've been working hard today. I heard about your back yard. I am so sorry. Seeing your families flashlight in the debris last night (along with our other neighbors flashlights) gave me a calmness in the scary mess. If I can lend a hand, I think I am done with our yard for now. I can help.

From Tory Nair: We are thankful for our neighbors as well!

My parents are also kens neighbor and his backyard is really bad when I saw it my mouth just dropped. If you need help ken John is always around after work let us know

I was reviewing the report and Yorkville was not mentioned. We had hail (at least I am pretty sure it wasn't debris hitting my roof) and we had extreme winds. I don't understand how the report tells you what really happened since our town is not mentioned. Whatever it was it did some serious damage! Glad no one was seriously injured and ultimately it doesn't matter what it was, I guess, all that matters is that even with all the growth there were people who brought our community together by helping others.

I would like to thank Brian Brown and all the neighbors in the 1200 block of Evergreen Lane in the Fox Hill Subdivision for their help. I lost my entire fence and patio furniture. Too many trees and massive limbs littered the entire area. Everyone chipped in.

I spent a near 8 hours helping everyone. Great job on recuperating everyone! I'm going to submit some pictures of the White Oak neighborhood that Jill didn't post. I live there, and I've got some deadly pictures

Wow

Jen is right, no serious damage. What is with some of you people? I read the PATCH and all I read 99% of the time is negativity. I am the 1% who is tired of it. Let's be truly thankful that no one was injured. So our city guy got it wrong, really. Did it cause any damage? No. Stop. I would not want to live in your town because of you people. The people who were out helping, God bless you. You are the type of people who should be patted on the back. Shame on everyone else who always has something bad to say. Maybe if you are ALWAYS unhappy maybe you should look into getting some type of help.....

Picture 40 is of the White Oak Estates. Almost all of the yards look like this. Drive through and look at all the stuff on the side of the streets

Dear so tired of negative people..... What would you do if a storm rolled through in the city and it didn't give off any sirens or warnings and a 100 year old tree that belongs to the city falls on your house and two of your vehicles and smashes them??? They only pushed one piece out of the street so the cars could get through $1800 later I had to remove it via a tree company???? The city has not been back by in two days. Mymailbox is broken now again from the tree, the first time the city snowplow hit it and they came by and electrical taped it back together and now this time it's really broken. Hmm not sayin just sayin!!!!!

I would like to thank my so jimmy freer. He cleared the streets of large branches and trees with his truck. And helped neighbors cut down branches and clear their roofs.

I feel a great sadness looking around at all the damage caused by that recent storm.
The huge, mature trees that were spintered or completely toppled was an incredible sight. I felt a deep sorrow for the people who had to fix roofs or find someone to cut up the downed trees. We may not have garnered the news coverage that this incident deserved in our little "neck of the woods", but know that whoever you are who is having to deal financially/emotionally with the aftermath is in my thoughts and in my prayers.

It is so sad seeing all the trees uprooted and split - from the littlest saplings to the mightiest giants. Nature can truly be unforgiving. We were lucky - our trees stayed rooted and the old-timers in the forest behind us held strong. So glad this storm didn't hurt anyone - it was a pretty crazy one. Glad the comments were made regarding the status of a microburst as I truly thought this was one considering the winds.

Hi I am new to Patch as of this year infact. as I am sitting here reading all the comments and viewing all the pictures.. I am greatful no lives were lost and my heart fills with sorrow. Even though I am not currently a resident of Yorkville my parents are. They suffered great damage however due to my parents disabilities they are unable to pick up the distruction from the aftermath of storm, I want to take the time to Thank whom ever it was that went to 306 E. Van Emmon Street and picked up the debre which gave them access to there driveway.. may god bless you.. however there is still much work to be done all around the community.. and just like my parents most residents are on fixed incomes due to disabilities and can not pay for the clean up that needs to be done.. i beg of all Yorkville residents to come together and help out our beautiful community.. if the city is going to take its time with the clean up we need to help thoes in need.. I would be up there if i could believe me my two small children are there.. and in our situation we have multiple trees in very bad shape and in the next bad storm or even a wind storm they could fall and collapse on the house indangering everyone inside even my children and also one of the trees is indangering the neighbors house across the street... so as i sit here praying for our community to come together and help each other as neighbors as friends.. may god be with you all in this time of need...