There were trees uprooted, trees broken in half and trees across the road. The mobile homes near the intersection were not damaged (that we could see, the offical report says otherwise).
The distance from our home to were the tornado did its destruction was exactly 5 cromes (five miles by way the crow flies)
The Offical Report from NOAA:
6 Miles N HELENA, DODGE COUNTY GA
N32° 17' E82° 91'
EF0 NEAR INTERSECTION OF LONG BRIDGE AND NEW BETHEL CHURCH ROADS. MOBILE HOME DAMAGED AND TREES DAMAGED. PATH LENGTH WAS 1/2 MILE AND PATH WIDTH WAS 25 YARDS. (FFC)
Even closer to home:
The guys that rent to hunt the planted pines, felt it necessary to put up a gate at the lane. The lane has always be considered a public road way. A bit of land that each of the property owner's (one of which being Sarah's Dad) would give to be the common land - share by both, owned by none. We were upset by the installation of the gate but we still had access via the breaks in the old fence. With the power pole needing to be replace at midnight last night and no key to open the gate --- the guys from the EMC took the easy route. They plowed the bucket truck though the gate like it wasn't there!!!
Mama was scared last night. The sound of something hitting the roof was LOUD. They were thinking hail... But instead it was the pecans being loosed from the huge tree and descending onto the metal roof. With the wind last night all the pecans have fallen from the trees and need to be harvested.
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