The Treasure Coast News reports:
St. Lucie County Sheriff Keith Pearson didn’t have to go far to show residents an example of why they needed to stay indoors Wednesday afternoon. A suspected tornado ripped up a steel storage building right outside the sheriff’s headquarters in the 4700 block of Midway Road.
Pearson posted a video on the office’s Facebook page, using the mangled building as a backdrop, in which he urged people to remain inside their homes until the storm had passed. The building stood no chance against the ferocious winds, Pearson said.
“It was completely gone in a matter of seconds,” he said. The building was used to store cars and other equipment used by the department.
Read the full article. Yesterday Pearson appointed Eric Trump as a “Special Deputy Sheriff” complete with a shiny badge. From the video, it appears that multiple police cars were destroyed along with the building.
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