Updated 01/14/2005 02:49 PM
Possible tornado rips out entire wall
By: Tracey Early & Web Staff
A wall is ripped off by winds
Friday morning’s storms left a mark on Orange County.
High winds blew off the side to a house, scattering furniture and debris everywhere.
As the rain came down overnight, Beth Sneed planned for a wet morning but she never expected what was to come.
“It was quite a shock when I turned that light on and saw the whole side of the house had been blown out," Sneed said.
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It was blown out and scattered everywhere. Pieces of wood and debris lined her yard on Saint Mary's Road in Schley.
One neighbor found a curtain to Sneed's house along the road. Even to Sneed's boyfriend, fire fighter David Russell the damage is shocking.
“I've noticed about three different directions of wind gusts, one coming through the house, which blew the walls out, one blowing back into the house and that's noticeable by the insulation being plastered to the walls and than the building directly behind you was moved off of it's foundation," he expained.
The building is one of Sneed's sheds; winds moved it almost five feet from its original location.
The wind ripped through other parts of the area as well. Trees were snapped in half and debris is scattered in the lot right next to Sneed's house.
The storm's force carried parts of Bunny Smith's shed into Sneed's yard. Other pieces are now stuck in tree limbs.
Smith said she's never heard anything like it, “There's clearly a path through here where the wind came through and snapped these trees just like toothpicks."
But Mother Nature didn't snap everything. Sneed has plans for her damaged home and is already looking to rebuild.
She said, “Material things are material things, I’m okay, and that's the most important thing, so I can fix my house."
The National Weather Service said it was a possible tornado that caused the damage in northeast Orange County.
Emergency management teams are still investigating.