by Joi-Marie McKenzie and Joe Proudman
A group of Pratt students stare wide eyed at a black Mazda with its roof caved in and shattered windows. A large tree branch rests around every side of it.
“Oh my God,” one student says, as she takes out her cell phone. “I’m going to take a picture of this and send it to my mom.”
Sarah Cooper, 21, the owner of the Mazda was sitting inside her car when the storm began.
“I had to go to class and needed an umbrella that was in my car,” she said. “Then all of a sudden it turned crazy. There was hail, my car was shaking. Then I heard a crack.” Sarah looks at the reclined back drivers seat where she was sitting. The headrest was directly below where the roof caved in from the falling branch.
“Glass came into the car. I tried to jump out but all of the doors were locked,” Sarah said. “So I jumped out of the window and ran to school.”
After calling her dad in Buffalo, he called Sarah’s insurance company. With 100 calls in 20 minutes, they said they couldn’t do anything about the car until two days later. For now it sits on Willoughby Avenue.
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