COBB COUNTY, Ga. — Across Cobb County, blue tarps are covering houses and debris is piled up.
Channel 2 Cobb County Bureau Chief Michele Newell was at a warehouse where crews were building a temporary wall after storms destroyed it Thursday.
The owner of 18 Wheeler Truck Parts and Chrome is thankful his team is ok.
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“The employees were right behind the counters and I was in the back office,” he remembered. “I can feel the walls were shaking like that...I think because we had the brick building, so we are safe. Otherwise, if we didn’t have the brick building, the store was not going to be here anymore.”
The back wall of the warehouse is gone, and it will be days before the temporary wall is finished. The owner says a permanent wall can be up in a month.
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Just a mile away, a neighborhood is among the hardest hit areas in Cobb County.
“[It was] pandemonium. People just running around trying to help each other,” homeowner Bryonn Nix described.
Massive trees crashed into homes and some houses were torn apart on Log Ivy Drive.
“We were trying to get ahold of this new couple over here because they had a newborn, and it was on the baby’s room that the tree fell, but luckily they were at work too,” Nix recalled.
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The Red Cross is helping families that have been displaced in Cobb County while crews work around the clock to clear debris in nearly 30 different parts of the county.
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