A severe storm hits Stuttgart almost one year to the date that a tornado devastated the town. This time the damage is confined mostly to the east side of town but it still proved destructive.
Twisted street signs and uprooted trees show the storm's power as it hit Stuttgart. City storm spotter Lloyd Snider measured 100 mile per hour winds and saw hail. “We had hail about the size of golf balls and it covered the ground where I was watching probably 3 to 4 inches," Snider said.
Snider soon got word that a tree fell on his mother-in-law's house with the 92 year old still inside. "I called the fire department and they met me over there, she had no injuries but we got through the house and got to where we could get her out," he said.
Her neighbor's house couldn't stand up against the wind and falling trees either. The damage is pretty much the same all over the east side of town.
"I lost all my beautiful trees, I don't know how old this one is, you can see it's big," Neighbor Edwyle Cunningham said.
"About 2 o'clock we heard a loud pop like lightning," Kelly Box said.
The noise was a tree crashing down on the car in Kelly Box's driveway. When they came out his step-son Tristan couldn't believe his eyes. "It was messed up, that's all I have to say," Tristan said.
There's a bit of a cleanup ahead but that's okay the folks here say it could have been a lot worse.
