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Fairhope and Daphne hit by 80 mph winds as surprise storm downs trees across Baldwin County
FAIRHOPE, Ala. (WKRG) — The sound of chainsaws replaced the sound of howling winds that reached gusts of up to 80 miles an hour storming through the Rock Creek neighborhood in Fairhope Thursday morning.
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'I got the weather alert, and I looked outside and it started getting really dark, and I went back to the bathroom and took my dog with me,' said Macy Powell as the storm approached.
It only took a couple of minutes for the squall line to pass through the neighborhood. 'Honestly, it sounded like a million trees were falling down in the moment,' added Powell.
There were trees on houses, trees just missing houses. 'The neighbors were here and they told me it sounded like a locomotive going through the neighborhood,' said Dee Niette Thompson, who had a tree on her roof. 'The doors were actually banging. It was bad, it was really bad.'
It was a close call for a lot of neighbors, like Darlene Prudhomme, now dealing with a demolished Magnolia tree. 'I heard it, that's what scared me. I looked over that way and I didn't see any hole in my roof.'
In Old Towne Daphne, trees that couldn't stand up to the wind were quickly cleared by city crews after a severe storm that took a lot of folks by surprise. 'It's going to take us a while to get this place cleaned up again,' Thompson said.
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There were damage reports scattered throughout Baldwin County, but so far, no reports of anyone injured.
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