Less than 12 hours later, Pike County’s emergency management director said he’s not sure what damaged about 10 homes and other buildings early Monday morning – micro-burst, straight line winds or tornado. Nee Jackson says it happened a little after 2 a.m. – just a few minutes after a tornado warning was issued for the area.
“We had a commercial structure that had two walls knocked off, back part of the roof completely torn off the structure, debris all across the north- and southbound lanes of 23 to the other side of the road. We’ve had some roofs taken off of homes.”
It’s the latest storm-inflicted damage in a county still recovering from the mid-February floods. Jackson said knowing heavy rain is expected beginning late Wednesday night is an uneasy feeling.
“They're projecting an inch and a half to two inches, and we kind of hope that we can stay on that end of the scale, that we don't get upgraded for any reason whatsoever.”
Jackson said no one was injured by whatever raced through U.S. 23 early Monday morning.
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