GEORGES -- He'd searched for most of the day under wind-sheared trees and bushes, heaps of mangled metal and even a hail-battered car or two.

But hours after a powerful storm tore through the mobile home park he manages in rural Fayette County, Brent Ruble still hadn't found the power tools and family heirlooms that had been swept away when a particularly potent gust hurled his storage shed skyward and over his roof, then dashed it into a driveway more than 200 feet away.

"People said it was just spinning away in the air," said Mr. Ruble, 36, whose home was one of more than 100 damaged Monday night when the storm hit the Strickland Estates park, about eight miles southwest of Uniontown.

"We don't have much now, but what we've got is everywhere," he said, gesturing around the battered community yesterday as neighbors retrieved scattered belongings or hauled away chunks of plywood, metal and bubblegum-pink insulation.

"I do wish I could find my parents' [photographs], because it meant a lot to me," he said. "But the way I look at it [is] my wife and children are safe."

Mr. Ruble and other residents said they were certain a tornado had wrecked five mobile homes and damaged nearly every other structure in the park.

No one was hurt during the storm, but one home lost all of its roof and several others were shoved off foundations and likely cannot be salvaged, park owner Tim Strickland said.

Among them was the home he shared with his wife, Tina, who was across the street, closing up a market the couple runs in the park, when the storm struck.

Officials at the National Weather Service, however, said the damage was caused by a microburst, or strong gust, produced by a thunderstorm. Accompanying winds of up to 60 mph uprooted trees, sheared away wooden decks and sheets of metal skirting from countless mobile homes, crumpled outbuildings, and dumped toys, grills, a metal gazebo and a large trampoline into yards far from their own.

Mr. Ruble, who lives with his wife, two children and a niece, had just finished showing a mobile home to a potential tenant when the storm kicked up around 9:10 p.m. Monday. He intended to sprint through the rain back to his own home but instead was pinned against an outside wall when he stepped outdoors.

"That wind -- I couldn't move,'' he said. "It was wind, rain, ice balls. It hit me so hard my chest is still hurting."

Mr. Strickland, 48, said he was in Ohio but was talking to his wife on their cell phones when the storm knocked out electrical power to the park.

When his wife ventured out of the market and across the street, he said, she was stunned to find their home askew, with much of its twisted roof peeled off and dangling over the back yard.

"I do have insurance, but most of these people don't," said Mr. Strickland, who shuttled his own dump truck and backhoe between yards while helping tenants clear away debris and patch each others' roofs with blue plastic tarps.

"We're fortunate nobody got hurt," he said. "We'll get back together and find a way to get these people back into their lives.''