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Storms rip through Rusk County leaving debris behind

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By Halie Richardson
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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.

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