"We've had blow-downs before, just nothing this size."

One thunderstorm in July felled around 2 million cords of wood in Wisconsin's North Woods.

"If a tornado hits, a tornado is a half-mile to a mile wide and two to three miles long," Ericson said. "Then it lifts and it's done.

"This went on for miles."...

If you cut and stacked the logs on 40-foot logging trailers and included the trucks to haul them, they would stretch 1,700 miles,