Staff photo by Jenna Walker/Chattanooga Times Free Press
Nathaniel Milligan checks for any recoverable items from Sherri Cash’s destroyed truck at Cash’s Signal Mountain home. A tornado and storm Monday felled several trees on her home and property.Sherri Cash looked out her Signal Mountain kitchen window expecting to see darkening sky Monday after her son Graham made her listen to a bulletin on his weather radio.
As she turned on the television, she glanced toward her yard. The air was greenish yellow.
Hail began hitting the front of the house, and as she and her sons, both in their 20s, huddled in a kitchen corner, the rain, hail and wind were moving sideways.
“It was horizontal. I’ve never see that before,” she said.
When the storm and “the loudest sound” Cash said she’d ever heard subsided, the family had three trees on the house and two on their truck.