It’s the kind of a storm that many in the Southern Tier haven’t seen in some time: Trees snapped in half, bringing down power lines, and longtime community centers forced to clean up heavy damage.

Following the aftermath, one Endicott resident chose to look at the positives.

“It’s as bit as exciting as weird seeing this kind of stuff. It’s really interesting to see how humbling Mother Nature really is. I mean, look at that. That’s amazing,” Sam Martin of Endicott said about a tree that had snapped in half along Merserau Park.

But that was some of the minor damage.

A telephone pole came out of the ground, crashing through the outfield fence at Sertoma Field. And just down the road, members of Endicott’s Little Italy Heritage Center were alerted to troubling news.

“When we arrived, we kind of assessed the situation, and it turns out the roof of the building next door blew off and damaged our roof. So we have some water damage and tree damage and glass broken,” said Jim Fye, a member of the heritage center.

More than 13,000 Broome County residents and close to 4,000 Tioga County residents were without power for hours. Crews worked for hours to restore it, along with those helping to clean up the damage.

For members of Little Italy Endicott, the storm damaged a location where members host meetings and cook meals to raise money for the community.

“We’ve put a lot of time and money and effort into the museum, and also community service like music in the park, so it’s paramount that we get back online as quickly as possible so we can do what the service group is all about,” said Fye.

Despite the damage to dozens of homes, no one was injured in Wednesday’s storm.

At this point, Broome County does not have plans for establishing a cooling or sheltering center, but officials say NYSEG will provide water and dry ice to customers if the outages remain.