Byline: Ilaina Jonas Staff writer
A series of violent storms Monday devastated sections of northeast Schoharie County, ripping roofs off houses, destroying other structures beyond recognition and leaving several families homeless.
In Albany and the counties that surround it, thousands of people were without power and roads were flooded as the storm dumped 1.6 inches of rain at Albany County Airport and knocked down tree limbs and power lines.
The storm sheared Bob Brazie's Cobleskill home off its foundation, knocking it into the street, where it landed on top of a car containing a woman and her two children.
It was about 3 p.m. when Brazie looked out the window of his two-story Route 7 home and saw the wind begin to whip and the sky darken to black.
"I called my wife, Betty, downstairs and said, 'We're going to get hit.' I laid on top of her and the damn back wall fell in on us."
The wind blew the house, with the Brazies and their dog Pepper, into the road, where it crashed into a red car.
"I finally got to my senses …
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