Video: Amory Thunderstorm Damage

AMORY, Miss.(WCBI)—Straight line winds and hail moved across Northern Mississippi Thursday night. Leaving a few areas with quite a bit of clean up Friday morning.

Hail the size of golf balls fell damaging structures and vehicles.

” We might not have clothes on our back but we still got our life,”said home owner Shnea Hughes.

Thanks to last night’s storm  Hughes’s world has been turned upside down.

“I got a phone call I was at work, of course.  Hometown Pizza, I was on a delivery and I get a call saying a tree fell on your home and I was like ok you know I’m thinking it ain’t nothing. So I get there and it’s through the house,” said Hughes.

Hughes says her initial concern wasn’t the house but her family.

” All I could think about was my child. It was a tree through the bed room one down in the yard and one across the street windows broken total loss. We could have lost a life cause it was around their bed time could have just been me no kids but that the lord everybody’s got life,”said Hughes.

Bunky Goza is the Monroe County Emergency Management Agency Director and he says the city is definitely seeing significant damage but things could have been way worse.

“The most important, of any event, is there’s no injuries loss of life and everyone’s accounted for that’s the most priority when any kind of situation like that happens. So number one factor that’s great. Number two is that everyone is ok. Neighbors take care of Neighbors and people getting out and helping themselves,”said Goza.

Goza says clean up efforts began as soon as the storm stopped but he needs the community’s help to keep the process going.

” We’re not allowed to go on private property by state law. So what we are doing is the city of Amory went ahead and made the push to clear all of the roads which we did all that last night and what we are asking people to do is to bring the debris to the shoulder of the road where it can be picked up by the city of Amory,” said Goza.

Hughes says the timing of this storm couldn’t have been as a worse time.

Unfortunately I’ve been in the house about a month, two months didn’t have any home owners insurance nothing just us,”said Hughes.

Goza adds the city nor the county sound sirens for thunderstorm warnings they are only for tornado warnings. The city is apart of the code red system, which allows participating residents to receive notifications about all severe wither.

The Hughes family is receiving assistance from the Red Cross.