CALEDONIA (WIFR) -- It was a bit windy today, but nothing like the 135 mile-per-hour winds we had exactly one year ago when an EF-2 tornado tore through Caledonia.

"This building should have been there, and it wasn't."

Ken Hicks had just returned home from work at the Caledonia Township Highway Department when he learned the building was flattened by an EF-2 tornado.

"We consider ourselves very fortunate to not have been here. Had we been here who knows," he says.

It cost 150-thousand dollars to rebuild and replace equipment and supplies. Hicks considers it much more structurally sound

"I'm thinking oh my god why did it have to happen to me," Karen Boettcher told 23 News 11/22/10.

We met her when the twister ripped up her detached garage and back porch. Sixty-thousand dollars later, her home has a new look.

"Our insurance company dropped us," she says.

Many families have also rebuilt. Some from the ground up. Boettcher lives next door to McDonald Manufacturing, which remains stuck in time.

"It's pretty annoying because you don't know what kind of animals are going to be hibernating in there. You don't know if people are going to start going in there taking stuff, it's just an eyesore," says Boettcher.

For the most part, there's little evidence of last year's tornado. Families have moved on and look forward to a calm, Thanksgiving feast.

No one was seriously hurt during the tornado. Many were quite shook up though. Including five Cherry Valley Elementary School kids whose bus was overturned during the twister.