SANDY POINT — Grace Ojala of Langley said it was the worst storm she’s ever seen in Saratoga Passage.

“It was so bad the waves were splashing up to the top of our house and splashing over the houses north of us,” she said.

Ojala lives on Sunrise Lane in a neighborhood of four houses on the beachfront near the Langley Marina. She was up at 5:45 a.m. Thursday and the wind and waves were in high gear and didn’t settle down until about 8 a.m., she said.

“This was worse than the storm that destroyed Ivar’s five or six years ago,” Ojala said.

The wind, she said, was coming from the north and it washed decks with logs, took out bricks when it washed over the seawall, destroyed fences, tipped garbage cans and flower pots, uprooted plants and flowers, and left a path of rocks both large and small strewn over water-soaked yards and driveways.

She watched from the second floor of her home as the waves hit her house.

“Nobody’s windows were broken, which was a miracle because those waves were hitting us hard,” Ojala said.

Down in Sandy Point, the damage was more extreme. Melanie Hill lives on Point View Walk and described a similar scene to the one Ojala described after what she called a hurricane of sorts.

“There is a lot of damage,” Hill said.

“There’s a pretty high bulkhead down here, but logs got washed up over that and front yards are completely destroyed,” she added.

The waves threw bowling ball-sized rocks onto lawns, along with huge logs and other debris. A sailboard was dropped onto one lawn, and the power of the surf broke apart numerous wooden decks and snapped a steel flagpole at its base.

Landscaping pavers and brick patios were washed away, along with seaside gardens.

Hill said that because she lives on the side of the point that faces Everett, her yard was untouched by the storm. But her neighbors who face Langley were not as lucky.

“Their decks were trashed, sand washed completely over the sidewalks, firewood is scattered, little boats were washed over to somebody else’s house and sprinkler systems were uprooted,” she said.

The dock looked fine and the boats suffered little damage, Hill said. The caretaker at Sandy Point, whom Hill spoke to earlier in the day, said the storm was raging as early as 3 a.m.

“I left at 9:30 a.m., and it wasn’t as bad but it was still kind of windy,” Hill said.

For all the wind damage, South Whidbey Fire/EMS did not respond to any medical emergencies due to the wild weather.

Deputy Chief Jon Beck said they were busy taking trees out of power lines and had to close five roads, mostly in the Saratoga area. Ebb Tide Lane, East Harbor Road, Holmes View Drive, McKay Drive and Pinecrest Avenue were all closed due to trees down on the road or water over the road.

“It got a little busy yesterday,” Beck said. “East Harbor Road and Saratoga seemed to get hit hardest in our area because of the northern wind coming in.”

“Fox Spit had probably three feet of water over there.”

A tree fell onto a home on Saratoga Road during the high winds, but no one was hurt.

Dorothy Bracken, a spokeswoman for Puget Sound Energy, said multiple power outages were reported across the island Thursday.

“We had quite a few there in the morning,” she said.

Record writers Ben Watanabe and Brian Kelly contributed to this report.