Winds knock down power lines, trees
By Greg Kline
Monday May 12, 2008
Heather Coit
Champaign firefighters Lt. Jim Holdren, left, and Randy Smith assess the situation after Sunday's strong winds blew a tree over onto a car owned by new University of Illinois graduate Ryan Henrichs, bottom right, as his housemate, Jared Esker, watches.
CHAMPAIGN – It wasn't exactly the graduation gift Ryan Henrichs had in mind.
"One of my roommates came to my room and said, 'Henrichs, get out here, your car's just been annihilated,'" the University of Illinois student from Belleville, who graduated this weekend, said Sunday evening.
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