That top was solid all the way through ,about 12 inchs at that height.The wind just snapped it like a tooth pick .
Fact that same wind knocked down two trees out front of my house and dropped a 90 foot shag bark from the roots through my neighbors house .I'm thinking those gusts were 80-90 MPH .Fact it blew a two feet diameter limb out of a big oak too ..
I was outside at work having a smoke and saw it approaching ,looked like the rising of hell .When it hit I thought the roof was coming off ,60 acres of flat roof .Knocked out power in some places three days ,some for a week .Fact it even knocked out one of the two 138 thousand volt lines feeding the engine plant which had never happened before
It hit so hard just north of us Tom had one job alone that was over ten grand just getting the big oaks off one house .It was a bad one .