30-05-2025
Trees on homes, storm damage in West Mobile
MOBILE COUNTY, Ala. (WKRG) — As storms moved along the Gulf Coast Thursday morning, damage was left behind across the area including in West Mobile, which made for a noisy start to the day.
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'Debris [was] flying everywhere,' Gregory Kilpatrickk with A&F Tree Service said. 'You [could] hear the wind hollering. It was loud.'
One homeowner called News 5 to report damage at his house, just off Cody Road.
When we arrived, we found an old oak tree completely uprooted and toppled on top of his home.
Robert Battles tells us he and his wife were in bed when it fell.
'I heard like a choo-choo train coming through there, then I heard something hit,' Battles said. 'I really didn't know it was that much damage until I got up to go to the grocery store.'
More damage could be seen across the street, where a large limb barely missed a neighbor's home, falling into the front yard.
Just a few minutes away in the Princeton Woods neighborhood, another tree crashed on top of a home.
News 5 spoke with one woman who was passing by the moment it happened.
'My alert went off on my phone; I leaned over to turn my phone off, heard a noise, looked up and [saw] the trees coming down,' Debra Walcott said. 'It landed on a house, and the trees on the sidewalk, they were just falling.'
No injuries were reported from either home where the trees fell.
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There were also several reports of power outages in the area, but crews were working to restore it.
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