A massachusetts community is cleaning up after a radar-confirmed tornado hit tuesday.
In yarmouth-- the strong winds ripped the roof of a hotel just after noon.
Heather hegedus spoke with some of the people who had to take cover.
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Look on the left side of the screen...
That was the moment the roof was ripped off the cape sands inn....captured by surveillance camera.
And there were families inside their rooms when the roof flew off.
Mya Couse/Belchertown, MA:
"Terrified."
Heather Hegedus:
"What did you think was gonna happen?"
Mya Couse/Belchertown, MA:
"I thought I was going to blow away."
11-year-old mya couse and her family are visiting from springfield..
They had just returned to their room after grabbing lunch.
As they felt the roof lift up... They ran into the motel bathtub.
Mya Couse/Belchertown, MA:
"I was just crying. My mom put a towel over my head."
Heather Hegedus:
"So that you wouldn't see what was happening?"
Mya Couse/Belchertown, MA:
"Yeah."
Heather Hegedus:
"And how do you feel now?"
Mya Couse/Belchertown, MA:
"I feel fine."
Mya's parents took this photo of the water pouring into their room.
Jason Couse:
"And the ceiling lifted up and started swirling and all the sudden it started raining inside."
Heather Hegedus:
"What is going through your mind as this is happening?"
Jason Couse:
"Panic."
Other guests describe what sounded like a freight train barreling towards them.
Elaine and chip cassidy are from ohio where they get a lot of tornados and say it's a sound they know... But will never be comfortable hearing.
Chip Cassidy:
"It's the rumble - the rumble of the train that you hear."
butt
Heather Hegedus:
"And what was going through your mind?"
Chip Cassidy:
"Well she was down at the indoor pool and what was in my mind was that i hoped she was evacuating out of that pool area to come back to the room."
Joe ucci was watching this all unfold from a *balcony on the other side of the motel.
He says it was like watching the tornado scene in the wizard of oz.
Heather Hegedus:
"Tell me what that looks like."
Joe Ucci/Lyndhurst, NJ
"I just saw the winds whipping in the funnel."
//butted//
"I don't want to go through that again."
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Now the concern has shifted to trying to retrieve debris that flew into a creek behind the motel before it flows into the ocean.
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