BUFFALO, N.Y. — Ellicott Center, a skilled nursing and rehabilitation center on Seventh Street in Buffalo was in the path of a surprise tornado.
The tornado left a huge hole in the roof of the building.
"It wasn't just a crack, but there was a hole. It's what happens if the tornado hits, you know, we see this stuff out in the midwest, it's scary," said Jeff Jacomowitz, communications director for Centers Health Care.
The facility has about 120 beds. It's unclear how many residents were there at the time.
Centers Health Care, based in the Bronx, owns the facility. Jacomowitz told Two On Your Side's Claudine Ewing, that a temporary roof was installed a few hours after the tornado.
He said no residents were moved out of the facility. "about 24 residents were relocated within the facility."
Jacomowitz said building inspectors deemed the building to be a sound structure.
If residents had to evacuate the company has other locations in Buffalo and Bath, NY.
"Heidi Smith is the director of nursing over there and she made sure that everybody had their own little area partitioned. So everybody's comfortable. So the next thing is to get them back to where they were when they get the permanent roof, but these things will take a little time. The number one is safety and making sure nobody was hurt.," Jacomowitz said.