Valerie Holder talks Saturday about the tornado that tore through her neighborhood on Davis Mill Road on Friday night. Workers and residents began the cleanup process Saturday of neighborhoods ravaged by tornadoes and foul weather on Friday night.
By Mariann Martin/Staff Writer
For most of his 71 years, David Dill lived in the Short Tail Springs area, sometimes called “Dilltown.”
But he never saw the force of a storm like the one that drove a pine branch through his living room ceiling and half-buried a crowbar in his front yard.
“I saw it coming over the hill and I closed the door against the wind. Then I called out, ‘God, is this it?'” Dill said Saturday morning as he sat hunched in a chair his front yard, watching friends and family work to clear dozens of trees splintered around his home and down his long, gravel driveway.
“I’ve seen storms before but nothing like what hit yesterday,” he added.