.But clean up here has been efficient.
Here is story and pictures of Storm that rolled through here Saturday night and the brunt of it just a mile away at 40th Street and Thunderbird and also Tatum & Bell Rd.
Here at Anasazi We watched a spectacular lightning show around midnight before the winds and rain came in forces..Leaving the grounds flooded with pine needles
PHOENIX -- A destructive storm hit North Phoenix Saturday night.
The storm delivered heavy rain, hail and strong wind that brought down trees and power poles in the area of 40th Street and Greenway Road.
The National Weather Service confirmed that there was a macroburst where the worst of the damage is located. The strongest wind gust was measured at 100 miles per hour. Hurricane winds start at 75 miles per hour.
"We had quite a storm that came through last night," said Ken Waters, warning coordination meteorologist with the National Weather Service. "It's a severe storm that has so much energy that it has to release it."
Waters said a macroburst occurs when strong vertical winds push down through a storm cloud to the ground and then outward.
The storm caused a lot of damage at The Edge apartment complex where trees and covered parking structures fell on cars.
"I started hearing cracking noises," said JR Reese. "I thought my windows were going to break so I grabbed my mattress and put it in front of my window. The whole building is a disaster."
Nobody was hurt but there is extensive property damage. There are reports of multiple homes with roof and water damage. It also appears that lightning sparked some house fires.
Robin Waress and her family had to find another place to stay after the roof of their home near 40th Street and Greenway Road caved in.
"I don't ever want to experience it again," she said. "We got like little shoots of water streaming out of the ceiling, so we started grabbing stuff, and then you could see it start bowing and then it cracked. A flap fell and then an hour and a half afterwards, the rest of the roof fell."
Waress and her family had to pick through the debris, which had barricaded them inside the home.
ALL Damage in pictures is from 40th St and Thunderbird
