For the Park Plaza neighborhood in Kansas City, Friday is the calm after the storm.
The neighborhood, northeast of I-29, experienced 60 mph straight line winds. Trees were uprooted, narrowly missing cars, and one landed on one homeowner's roof.
People who live near 67th and N. Overland Drive worked through the night to clear the debris.
"I've been in the back part of Park Plaza trying to get limbs out, picked up," said Greg Harper, whose grandparents have had a home here since the neighborhood was founded in the 1960s.
His children still live in that home today; Harper living in the immediate area for 39 years.
He and other neighbors took to their basements around 9 p.m. Thursday to ride the storm out.
The National Weather Service said the lightning and strong winds met the threshold for severe weather.
"It was intensified wind to a level I had never heard it before - to the point I thought it was a tornado," said Rob Willard, a neighbor.
Willard's 5-year-old daughter, Audrey, is upset their giant evergreen is now gone.
"I was crying because I really like the Christmas tree," said Audrey.
Her father has assured her Christmas will still come, even without the tree.
"If it were going to land anywhere it landed in the perfect spot, so I guess the Christmas tree did me one last favor," said Willard.
