EMA director asks people to report damage

Even with light storm damage, Emergency Management Agency Director Bruce Burgess said people still need to call his office to report damage.

“Some people don’t know to contact me. Please, notify me if you have damage. We can come out and look at it to see if we need to contact someone else,” he said.

Turner County got off pretty light in storms early Thursday morning last week. Last week’s damage was on the north end of the County, generally from Whiddon Road to Reid Road and along Amboy Road.

Some lighter damage was reported in other places.

Trees were knocked down. Some structures had damage.

“It pulled some roofs up,” Chief Burgess said.

The damage was caused by straight-line winds.

“All the trees were laid in one direction,” he said. In a tornado, trees can be twisted and will fall at angles to each other.

“Most people think straight line winds can’t. But look at the trees, all in a line,” he said.

Straight line winds also ripped through the Pig Jig grounds in Vienna, doing considerable damage there.

What tornadoes did happen were in Middle Georgia, according to the National Weather Service.