Ten days after a tornado touched down in Epsom and then went on a 50-mile path of destruction, residents were still busy cleaning up.

Robert White, 70, was employing lumberjack skills he learned as a young man, chopping up the several 100-foot trees the wind blew down in front of his house.

“I was in the garage, looked up the hill, saw rain coming,” he said. He saw trees breaking off, but “The wind was so loud I didn’t hear the trees snap.”

The tornado apparently bounced right over his home and garage, knocking over very large trees just yards from the buildings.

“I feel blessed by God,” said White.

Wayne Murray, of 352 North Road in Deerfield, right on the Epsom line, had a similar experience. He and family members were busy on Sunday, Aug. 2, clearing the trees that had blown on top of his home, doing some roof damage, ruining his pool and taking down a large antenna, but leaving the house in livable condition.

Murray was in the house when he saw the tornado. “I saw the whole thing,” he said. “It sounded like a jet was crashing. The house shook, rocked and rolled.”

In the 10 days following the windstorm, Murray said many people had come out to help, for which he is thankful.

And help is certainly needed.

Community Emergency Response Team volunteers were guarding the dirt road past Murray’s home, and said looting of cord wood and copper piping has been a problem.

A home nearby White’s used to be completely hidden by the forest, now flattened. Trees were still splayed across many properties as of Aug. 2, and wherever the wind had hit, one could see that many trees had simply been cut and moved to the side just to clear the roads.