Caught on camera: Wind rips doors off of Salinas business

Heavy wind ripped two metal garage doors off of Sound Design AV on Highway 68 in Salinas Saturday, according to the store’s owner Brian Shaw.

“I’ve been here six years and I’ve been through some wind,” said Shaw. “I’ve never seen the doors torn off.”

Surveillance video (see video above) shows powerful gusts of wind ripping off the doors.

“I thought it was twister,” said Shaw. “I mean, it is a lot of wind to blow a shop door down and blow the other one out simultaneously,” added Shaw.

Before seeing the video, Shaw said Monterey County Sheriffs said it was initially reported as a burglary.

“We thought the guys had robbed the place and drove the trucks through the doors and basically hauled everything away,” said Shaw.

It was not a break in, instead it was wind that the national weather service said reached nearly 50 miles an hour in Salinas on Saturday night.

“The place was obliterated and all my inventory was sitting out in the parking lot,” said Shaw.

The wind didn’t stop there. It was same story at the home next door where wind blew a hole through a fence and shattered the back window of a truck, according to a witness who was at the house.

According to the witness, the wind blew away virtually everything that was outside of the home including a bolted down tent that blew up onto the roof.

Back over at Brian Shaw’s business, he said the wind likely caused it at least $50,000 worth of damage to his business, but yet he is thankful

“The bottom line is that no one was hurt,” said Shaw. “If this would have happened during the day when there are people working in the shop the people working in the stocking area would have gotten sucked out onto the street,” added Shaw.