The Storm: One dead; one injured. Massive wind damage.

“Keep an eye on the sky,” the Butler County Emergency Management Agency warned during the early afternoon of Wednesday, May 17.
     Within the next few hours, a storm with winds upwards of 80 mph swept Butler County and surrounding areas, claiming one life, sending one man to the hospital, and causing widespread property damage. Winds uprooted trees, tore roofs, doors and siding off buildings and snapped utility poles around the county.
   James Arthur Budlong, 70 of Dike, was killed in a one-vehicle accident at around 5:38 p.m. on Highway 57 near Sinclair.
   Budlong was driving a Sinclair elevator feed truck, which he had pulled over to the side of the road.  A gust picked up his tractor-trailer and tipped it over, pinning him in the cab. Sherriff Jason Johnson said Budlong was deceased when responders arrived.