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Sunday's 40 and 50 mile per hour winds left behind a path of downed trees and power lines all across the Tennessee Valley. Four year old Kaycee Sellers described what happened when the winds picked up. "It fell when it blew down," she said Monday. Kaycee was at home in Collegedale when a tree in her backyard came crashing down... onto her sandbox and her neighbor's house.
Briana Vaca was at home when this happened. "I heard something really big come down and my first concern was my brother so I ran to him and he was like, "Briana, what's going on?" And I ran outside and there's a tree on our house."
Briana's mother Elizabeth had just left for a movie. "We left and 15 minutes later she calls and says, "Mama, the tree fell down!" So we turned around and we came back home at like 100 miles an hour," she remembers.
But it's not just the Collegedale area that was wind-blown. EPB reports 4,000 customers were without electricity throughout the day Sunday. A power line came down on Gold Point Circle forcing campers to find other ways in and out of Chester Frost Park.
Another massive tree came down across Ooltewah-Ringgold Road at the same time EPB crews were responding. Crewman Don Pickett tells us one truck had just driven through when the tree came down, stranding the other truck over there. It took them about eight hours to clean up the mess.
No injuries were reported as a result of the windy weather. The Vacas were even able to sleep at home Sunday night, but Elizabeth said it was not a very restful night. "I had bad dreams last night. I thought the house was on fire. I didn't sleep at all. I thought it was going to cave in. It stayed in my subconscious I guess."
Both homes are insured. The Vacas are hoping the roof will be fixed before any more rain rolls in. Next door the Sellers are looking for their pet love bird since the wind blew over the birdcage.
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