Rare Tornado Strikes Central California Town

A tornado swept along Zeering Road on Sunday afternoon, damaging roofs of residences and a church, knocking down outbuildings and fences, downing power lines, breaking gas lines and causing other destruction. There were no reports of injuries. “What I thought was a bunch of birds was a bunch of debris” being carried by the funnel cloud, said Sabina Woodard, who lives with her husband at the east end of Zeering and saw the dark mass heading their way. “It looked like a remake of that Alfred Hitchcock movie ‘The Birds.’ ”