Fay Packs Small Punch In Alabama

Tropical Storm Fay packed a small punch as she downgraded to a tropical depression and made her way through South Alabama.

Clarke County Emergency Management Director Roy Waite tells News Five, Clarke County recieved more than four inches of rain Saturday, and at the height of the storm about a thousand people lost electricity.

No injuries were reported in Clarke County, but a Thomasville family certainly had a close call.

A huge tree fell just inches from Denise Watkins' bedroom. The 17 year old was watching a movie when she heard a loud crash.

"I just had to run out of the room. I saw the tree falling down," said Watkins.

The trunk of the tree narrowly missed the house on Highway 154, but branches and limbs scrapped the roof and snapped their powerlines.

Neighbors say the tree has been leaning since Hurricanes Ivan and Katrina, but it was storms associated with Fay that finally knocked it down.