The weather service is still determining whether Friday's storm produced any tornados.
However there were strong winds as fast as 70 miles an hour.
And those winds caused considerable damage to the small community of Watalula just north of Ozark.
More than 3,000 residents are still without power. And power crews are working into the evening to restore power to those remaining homes. Most of the damage in Franklin County occurred on Highway 352, just north of Ozark. And now residents are left cleaning up after the storm. "I was at a neighbors helping put the car in the shed and I watched it all out behind the shed. Strongest wind I've probably ever seen. I watched at my neighbors as his Bradford pear trees go down and I come down here and look and mine are worse than his! So now I've got a mess to clean up," said Roy Smith. Smith says he will spend the next couple days cutting up and hauling away the pieces of his downed Bradford pear trees.
Still, he says the damage could have been worse.
Carla Calbarera said she was terrified when the storm approached.
She and her two young girls took cover in the hallway. "We were in the house and I felt that there was a storm coming and I heard the warnings and everything. So I got my two girls and we got in the hallway and we got down. I had the comforter over them. About that time, I heard a boom and it was the tree that had hit the house," said Calbarera. Calbarera's car was parked underneath the tree. She was able to get the car out by climbing in the passenger door. Now, she's waiting for the electric company to come help remove the tree.
And those winds caused considerable damage to the small community of Watalula just north of Ozark.
More than 3,000 residents are still without power. And power crews are working into the evening to restore power to those remaining homes. Most of the damage in Franklin County occurred on Highway 352, just north of Ozark. And now residents are left cleaning up after the storm. "I was at a neighbors helping put the car in the shed and I watched it all out behind the shed. Strongest wind I've probably ever seen. I watched at my neighbors as his Bradford pear trees go down and I come down here and look and mine are worse than his! So now I've got a mess to clean up," said Roy Smith. Smith says he will spend the next couple days cutting up and hauling away the pieces of his downed Bradford pear trees.
Still, he says the damage could have been worse.
Carla Calbarera said she was terrified when the storm approached.
She and her two young girls took cover in the hallway. "We were in the house and I felt that there was a storm coming and I heard the warnings and everything. So I got my two girls and we got in the hallway and we got down. I had the comforter over them. About that time, I heard a boom and it was the tree that had hit the house," said Calbarera. Calbarera's car was parked underneath the tree. She was able to get the car out by climbing in the passenger door. Now, she's waiting for the electric company to come help remove the tree.
