AP Archive | ‘I just felt the whole house shake,’ says resident after Hurricane Helene passes @APArchive | Uploaded 3 days ago | Updated 16 hours ago
(27 Sep 2024)
RESTRICTION SUMMARY:
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Lowndes County, Georgia - 27 September 2024
1. Wide of an oak tree that fell through the roof of a home ++ZOOMS++
2. SOUNDBITES (English) Rhonda Bell, Lowndes County, Georgia resident:
"I just felt the house shake. And then I told my husband he didn't feel it. Then I got up and I saw the damage that it had done."
3. Tracking shot, shows an oak tree on top of the home
4. SOUNDBITES (English) Rhonda Bell, Lowndes County, Georgia resident: ++PARTIALLY COVERED++
"We were in the bed just listening at the rain and the winds and stuff. Not thinking this was going to happen. Thank God we both are alive to tell about it, so that's a good thing."
5. Medium damage to the home ++PARTIALLY COVERS PREVIOUS SOUNDBITE++
6. SOUNDBITES (English) Rhonda Bell, Lowndes County, Georgia resident: ++COVERED++
"But the back part of the house, it's okay."
7. Damage caused by the oak tree on top of the home ++COVERS PREVIOUS SOUNDBITE++
STORYLINE:
Hurricane Helene weakened into a tropical storm over Georgia early Friday after making landfall overnight in northwestern Florida as a Category 4 storm. Authorities rescued people trapped by floodwaters and more than 3 million customers were in the dark across much of the southeastern U.S.
Helene came ashore amid warnings from the National Hurricane Center that the enormous system could create a “nightmare” storm surge. There were at least four storm-related deaths.
Rhonda Bell and her husband were spending a sleepless night in the downstairs bedroom of their century-old home just outside Valdosta, Georgia, when Helene’s center passed early Friday in the hours after midnight.
The winds broke off tree limbs, tore away neighbors’ roof shingles, and knocked down fence panels in the neighborhood with train tracks along one edge. Then came a crashing sound louder than the rest.
“I just felt the whole house shake,” Bell said after daybreak Friday.
A towering oak tree outside the house smashed through the roof of an upstairs bedroom and collapsed onto the living room below. The massive tree roots popped out of the ground, leaving a gaping muddy hole.
“Thank God we’re both alive to tell about it,” Bell said.
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(27 Sep 2024)
RESTRICTION SUMMARY:
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Lowndes County, Georgia - 27 September 2024
1. Wide of an oak tree that fell through the roof of a home ++ZOOMS++
2. SOUNDBITES (English) Rhonda Bell, Lowndes County, Georgia resident:
"I just felt the house shake. And then I told my husband he didn't feel it. Then I got up and I saw the damage that it had done."
3. Tracking shot, shows an oak tree on top of the home
4. SOUNDBITES (English) Rhonda Bell, Lowndes County, Georgia resident: ++PARTIALLY COVERED++
"We were in the bed just listening at the rain and the winds and stuff. Not thinking this was going to happen. Thank God we both are alive to tell about it, so that's a good thing."
5. Medium damage to the home ++PARTIALLY COVERS PREVIOUS SOUNDBITE++
6. SOUNDBITES (English) Rhonda Bell, Lowndes County, Georgia resident: ++COVERED++
"But the back part of the house, it's okay."
7. Damage caused by the oak tree on top of the home ++COVERS PREVIOUS SOUNDBITE++
STORYLINE:
Hurricane Helene weakened into a tropical storm over Georgia early Friday after making landfall overnight in northwestern Florida as a Category 4 storm. Authorities rescued people trapped by floodwaters and more than 3 million customers were in the dark across much of the southeastern U.S.
Helene came ashore amid warnings from the National Hurricane Center that the enormous system could create a “nightmare” storm surge. There were at least four storm-related deaths.
Rhonda Bell and her husband were spending a sleepless night in the downstairs bedroom of their century-old home just outside Valdosta, Georgia, when Helene’s center passed early Friday in the hours after midnight.
The winds broke off tree limbs, tore away neighbors’ roof shingles, and knocked down fence panels in the neighborhood with train tracks along one edge. Then came a crashing sound louder than the rest.
“I just felt the whole house shake,” Bell said after daybreak Friday.
A towering oak tree outside the house smashed through the roof of an upstairs bedroom and collapsed onto the living room below. The massive tree roots popped out of the ground, leaving a gaping muddy hole.
“Thank God we’re both alive to tell about it,” Bell said.
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