Shocking moment huge tornado tears through South Carolina town’s picturesque main street, demolishing brick buildings and ripping off roofs

Shocking footage captured the the terrifying moment a huge tornado slammed into a quaint South Carolina town on Tuesday.

The tornado, rated EF2 on the Enhanced Fujita Scale, left devastating damage in Bamberg County in the southwestern part of the state, about 65 mile from Augusta, Georgia. 

Images of the aftermath showed bricks and debris scattered across the street after two buildings were hit by the twister. 

Bur representative Justin Bamberg, who is from Bamberg, said: ‘One of the beauties of living in a small town when things like this happen is your going to see people with their trucks and gloves, chainsaws, and we’re going to get through it’. 

There were no injuries reported, the lawmaker added. 

Presidential candidate and former SC governor Nikki Haley, who grew up in the area also issued a statement following the tornado.

The Republican said: ‘My heart breaks hearing about the storm damage in my sweet hometown of Bamberg, SC. The people of Bamberg are tough and resilient.

‘They taught me the meaning of neighbors helping neighbors. I know with love and prayer, they will rebuild stronger than they were before.

Authorities said the twister’s winds reached about 125 miles an hour and it grew to an estimated 400 yards wide.

There was also a EF1 tornado north of Lake Murray, which is around 24 miles northwest of Columbia, SC. That twister’s winds reached between 86 and 110 miles an hour, as reported by WLTX. 

Severe weather moved through the region on Tuesday, leaving flooding and damage in its path, with many towns reporting downed power lines and trees.

Torrential rain, flooding and fierce winds stranded vehicles, shuttered schools and knocked out power to hundreds of thousands in the Northeast, the swan song of a bout of violent weather that battered most of the United States. Forecasters warned Wednesday that more misery was not far behind.

The storm hit the Northeast on Tuesday night and moved out Wednesday after toppling trees, downing power lines, and forcing water rescues on flooded or washed-out roads.

Wind gusts reached as high as 95 mph in Maine, and blustery weather continued Wednesday. Philadelphia, which sits on the Delaware River upstream from the Atlantic Ocean, experienced its highest storm surge on record.

In some parts of the Pacific Northwest and the Rockies, more than 2 feet of snow fell. Bone-chilling cold weather promised to follow in some areas, and an avalanche in California killed at least one person as a new storm rolled in.

Meanwhile hundreds of thousands of customers lost power at some point as storms swept the country. At least 250,000 customers remained without power Wednesday afternoon on both coasts and in parts of the Midwest, with New York and Pennsylvania leading the count, according to PowerOutage.us.

Nearly 700 flights were canceled across the country Wednesday, according to FlightAware.com.

Another storm could bring heavy rain and high winds to the Northeast from Friday night into Saturday, forecasters said.