Storm Strikes Southwest Mobile County

The most noticeable thing in Don Pierce's front yard is this horse trailer that the storm tipped on its side, making it a little tough to sell now.

“My insurance company doesn't cover it because it needed to be under a shelter or connected to a car,” says Pierce. Don says the strong winds sounded like a freight train this morning. After that train left the station, he discovered this shed had been hurled over some trees. It used to sit a quarter mile away, outside this gas station. Even with all the damage around the property Don says he feels fortunate

“I'm extremely fortunate after seeing what had taken place over in Mississippi and other places,” says Pierce. Just up the road workers are hammering a blue tarp to this feed store roof.

“Oh we came in we had some water on the floor we had some shingles that were missing off the roof so we noticed that we had some damage,” says owner Kelly Duke. She says they're always ready for severe weather.

“What we do is we put our feed 3 to four inches up off the floor because the building sets low in the ground,” says Duke. In a nearby subdivision, the storm snapped limbs and uprooted trees

“I just figured it was a little twister or something and it was the same path of a tornado that came through during Hurricane Katrina,” says homeowner Joe Bailey. In this area, the trees landed on the ground rather than on someone’s roof.