Story Created:
May 14, 2008 at 8:34 PM CDT
Story Updated:
May 14, 2008 at 8:40 PM CDT
RUSK COUNTY - Mobile homes were demolished, barns were flattened and trees were split in two - as storms ripped through parts of Rusk County this morning.
Lloyd Kee, a farmer in Rusk County said, "I listened to thunder and lightning all night and I didn't know a tornado hit here till a neighbor called this morning."
Neighbors say one man's mobile home was thrown hundreds of feet into his nearby pond.
Clothes, a refrigerator, washer and dryer and other personal belongings were scattered across acres of land and water.
Kee said, "Theres stuff from were ya'll photographed earlier on the highway, theres part of a trailer house door and part of an under skirt scattered all the way across here."
A few miles down F-M 17-98 --- pieces of tin from a barn were wrapped around split trees.
A fishing boat was thrown a quarter of a mile down the road and residents say it had to be a tornado.
Kee said, "Theres trees down, the way it hit it had to be its not just straight winds. a lot f trees are twisted off, theres fence post out in that pasture out of this shed."
Kee says his main concern is replacing fences to keep his cattle from roaming away.