PAULS VALLEY, Okla. (KFOR) – “My complete life was in right here,” stated long-time Pauls Valley resident Eddie Menefee.
It has been heartbreak and cleanup for Menefee and his household Wednesday.
“I do not know the place to begin digging,” he stated.
His household property, that they’ve owned since 1903, was torn up by a twister Tuesday evening.
“The wind was blowing actual laborious, and it bought louder and louder,” he stated.
Menefee and his spouse had been asleep when the storm began.
“I might enterprise to say it lasted two minutes… perhaps, if that lengthy,” he stated.
By the point it was over, two of his barns, his workplace, and his woodshop had been all gone.
“Stepped outdoors and noticed that I might misplaced principally my complete little world,” stated Menefee, “67 years of my life.”
He says seeing it with damaged bushes and items of metallic strewn out for acres was devastating.
“I had cry once I noticed the one right here on the home,” he stated.
He says fortunately, the storm did not do any main harm to the home the place his household, together with his two grandsons, had been sleeping.
“We’ll survive it, we’ll salvage a few of it, simply thank God that the home continues to be right here and the household’s good,” he stated.
Garvin County Emergency Administration advised Information 4 early Wednesday as much as 8 buildings had been broken.
In addition they inform us no accidents had been reported.
As for Eddie and his household, they’re glad it did not finish worse.
“Go ahead… we will not go backwards, we gotta go forwards,” he stated.
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