"I went into the kitchen to eat and looked out the window, and it was just so green, big things flying through the air," Martha Cassidy recalls. "It was scary. I thought, 'Lord, what's happening'?"

For 160 years, one home's been standing sturdy outside Smiths Grove.

For 30 of those years, that home's belonged to Martha.

"I always heard that the Lord would top trees," Martha laughs, motioning to the uprooted trees on her lawn. "He sure topped these!"

Not only that, but the wind's torn down a gutter, bent an antenna, shattered windows, and destroyed power lines.

"They sure can't mow the yard for a while," Martha adds.

The squash plants?

They're okay.

"I was surprised that the barn blew away," Martha says, referring to a barn mere feet away, reduced to boards.

According to Joe Sullivan of the National Weather Service, Martha's home is a scene of tornadic wind damage .

"Some of the corn's lying down," Joe says, motioning to a field. "Some of its going from the southwest to the northeast, some of its going directly east. That's just a subtle sign its going two different wind directions."

Sullivan adds, the winds are believed to have been 95 miles per hour when they hit this area outside Smiths Grove.

That's a confirmation that has Martha feeling grateful that sturdy old home kept her safe.

"I'm glad this was a substantial house," she admits. "I'd be gone with the barn if it hadn't been."

Weather Service officials say they have also been using a GPS System to pinpoint rotational damage.