"This was a silo," points out Michaelia Papranec. "It's been here 30 plus years. It was 70 feet high, 20 feet round." She pauses. "It just came tumbling last night."

And now, what looks more like rubble from a war-zone, is all that's left at Papranec's dairy farm in Eaton Rapids.

"At one point my husband said it'd be the safest place-- obviously not this one," she says.

Heavy chunks of cement, twisted wire and sheet metal flew over the heads of their new dairy calves-- and in an instant, it was over.

"It's destroyed. Leveled. I've never seen anything like it," Papranec says.

What's the most incredible, the say, is that the wind must have been so strong to blow the silo over. The individual pieces it left are so heavy that they're hard for a person to pick up.

"Who would've thought," mutters Papranec.

Adding insult to injury, the storm made it an early harvest this year.

"the corn back there is leveled, the tree tops ripped right off, the soybeans sheared right off," she says.

Before the storms, their crops were growing quite nicely the say. The corn was about up to their hips. Now it's been sliced off, rendered useless-- their crops are all gone.

"$6,000 dollars worth of corn," she says. "Plus diesel costs, manpower, it's a total loss," Papranec says.

And the Papranecs don't have insurance, so they say last night was the last time a silo will have stood on their farm.