STANTON, NE — A northeast Nebraska golf course is assessing damage after a severe thunderstorm ripped through the course early Sunday morning.

Extreme winds tore up Elkhorn Acres Golf Course in Stanton. Employee Amanda Dickey says parts of the course have multiple downed trees.

“You get to the back of the course along the river and we have at least four, if not five, trees that are completely uprooted and out of the ground," Dickey said. "We have other trees that are still standing but they have branches from the top that look like they were twisted. There’s debris everywhere.”

The course is closed until further notice. Dickey says 25-30 volunteers showed up today to help pick up but they’ll likely need wait to reopen for several days.

“We’ll probably have to have the city come out and use a payload to get rid of it," Dickey said. "(I think it will be closed) for four or five days, it depends when the city can get out to clear the trees.”

This isn’t the first time the course has been hit by a storm. Flooding wrecked the bridge between Stanton and the course last spring. Dickey says it seems like the bad storms are a yearly ritual.

“We get picked on a lot," Dickey said. "Every year we have one big storm like this and it’s normally on Memorial Day or right before the 4th of July.”