I guess the severe thunderstorms and hail must've had you rattled? One of the worst hailstorms I ever went through hit the Livonia/lakeville area on June 14th, 1998. It even washed the fill on Bronson Hill Road that had replaced a bridge over the LAL. FWIW, NYS forced LAL to abandon the line east to Livonia in 1981 because it was cheaper to fill in the "dip" than to build a new bridge over the tracks. So much for progress...
Matt Langworthy
"It is highly likely that the 1990s were an overrated decade."