LOCUST GROVE, Ga. – Crews are working to scrub up in Henry County after fallen bushes crushed a number of cell properties.
Those that stay there imagine a twister come by their Locust Grove group behind the Tanger Retailers and busy Interstate 75.
The hum of chainsaws crammed the air in Locust Grove on Friday as many got here collectively to clear bushes and particles.
The sheer energy of Thursday’s storm evident as many trailer properties within the Indian Creek Cell Residence group are broken or destroyed.
“I may hear the bushes popping and banging, and I believed that we have been all gone,” Susie King stated.
“I used to be going to die,” Hugh Baker stated.
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For these like Susie King and Hugh Baker, who stay in the neighborhood, they’re grateful to be alive.
“A tree fell on my bed room, and it scared the hell out of me and my canine,” Baker stated.
Baker and his canine have been the one ones inside their residence when the storm got here by.
A tree got here crashing down onto his bed room knocking him to the ground.
“When it crushed the bed room it knocked me on the ground, and we crawled into the lavatory and me and him obtained into the tub,” Baker stated.
“I simply saved saying, ‘God be with me.’ That’s all you are able to do, and have been my neighbors OK as a result of I didn’t know if any of us have been going to make it out,” Susie King stated.
A bit up the highway is the place Susie King lives. King was alone and praying in her rest room. Her residence has harm to the roof which minor in comparison with the others within the space.
“I obtained up and went exterior and this place proper right here. Everybody was popping out of their homes, climbing over every little thing that you simply see proper right here. They have been into folks’s homes, they have been yelling,” King stated.
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King described the scene the place everybody was serving to others instantly after the storm handed.
“Behind this one, there have been three folks trapped within the rest room. They got here out of the primary one (trailer), and so they simply saved listening to folks yell, ‘Assist! Assist!’ They usually went over, and have been trapped by bushes,” King stated.
Friday, women and men from all backgrounds got here collectively to assist strangers clear up.
King stated that’s a testomony to their group.
“Some folks have unhealthy issues to say about cell residence parks. I don’t know the place they stay however the place we stay we’ve some good folks,” King stated.
The Nationwide Climate Service says they are going to be out in Butts, Henry, Newton, and Jasper counties on Saturday to survey the harm and decide if the harm was brought on by a twister or straight-line winds.