Crews from electric companies and tree removal services were working hard into the night Wednesday after an afternoon storm caused extensive damage to trees and power lines. Several homes, including two in Chicopee fell victim to uprooted trees.

"I was right on the front porch in the front door, and it just came down so fast. I tried to run inside, but it was too late," said William Hyde, whose home and van was heavily damaged.

Hyde is now faced with a tough clean-up on his Harwick Street house. He has lived there for 10 years but in a matter of seconds, a tree came crashing down, almost hitting him and his girlfriend who was sitting in a car in his driveway.

"It was something like Kansas and the Wizard of Oz. [The tree] was moving and moving and moving, and then all of a sudden I saw it coming towards me," Hyde said.

The storms moved in hard and fast at around 4:30 p.m. Wednesday and lasted for only minutes. Ann Marie Wilson lives next door to Hyde and is thankful her daughter was not playing outside at the time.

"When I came home I was shocked to see a big hole there. [The tree] was literally lifted up and dug down into the cement," Wilson said.

A few blocks away on Oldfield Road, another homeowner is faced with a tough clean-up after a tree crashes into his house, but he has not seen it yet, because neighbors said he is in California.

A few miles north in Easthampton, tenants at the Culdaff Street Apartments said the trees came down like dominoes.

"Four, five, six trees all came down, and then all the trees behind my building came down," said Steve Delacqua, one of about 60 residents at the apartment complex. "There were trees on the houses, trees on the buildings... Poles and wires were down. It was a mess."

As the clean-up continues into the night, what is surprising to many is how fast the storms rolled through and how much damage it left behind.

"It happened in moments and then the sun came out," Hyde said.

Chicopee police said when the storm hit, they received nearly 100 calls in three minutes. As of late Wednesday night, Western Massachusetts Electric Company reported less than 10 percent of customers were still without power in Easthampton, Westhampton and Southampton. Chicopee Electric Light also said its crews were working hard to restore power to affected customers.