Anadarko_Folks in Anadarko began to pick up the pieces left behind from a storm so powerful, some said it felt like a typhoon. The Western Farmers Electric Co-op was particularly hard it. "Transmission and distribution center was heavily damaged," said Sandra Boykin. The strong wind picked up co-op vehicles and tossed them into the air as if they weighed nothing.

All in all, they had several million dollars worth of damage. Thursday night, two-thirds of the town is still without power. The police chief told 7News most of the damage was on the northeast side of town. The National Weather Service said a tornado, an EF-2, did hit the town but that most of the damage was from straight-line winds.

Resident Rickey Churchill was right in the middle of it all. He first showed us a mexican restaurant there that had its roof ripped off. And then a trailer home turned upside down. But, he also had his own story to tell.

He was at the casino when he heard the news Wednesday night. "The security guard came in and said there was a tornado that touched down 6 miles away," said Churchill. His mother and niece were at his house at the time. So, he jumped in his SUV and headed back home. "The wind started picking up my SUV and it started swerving like this and I got scared," said Churchill.

Once he got to his house he tried to get out of his car. "I tried to open my door and I realized I couldn't open my door I had to slide to the passenger side to get out," said Churchill. And then the wind almost carried him away. "The wind took me and I had to grab a fence post to keep from going.  I thought my life was about to be taken," said Churchill. It wasn't--and his family was safe, too. But, he's still without power--and so are the majority of the town's residents.

Police Chief David Edwards wants citizens like Churchill to know they're working on it. "We want our citizens to know we're doing everything we can to get the power back on and all the help they need," said Edwards.

Assessment teams are still trying to figure out how much damage was done. "It's going to take a few days probably.  The northeast side took the biggest brunt of the damage" Either way, Rickey Churchill said it was a night to remember. "I ain't never seen no kind of wind like it was just hitting...at the time there's nothing I could do about it.  I thought I could...but it was in God's hands," said Churchill.

Edwards said they sounded the sirens Wednesday night but, because they had power problems, they were forced to sound them about 10 minutes late. Chief Edwards said three people were injured in last night's storm. Two were hurt from falls, and another from broken glass, but their injuries are minor.