Baldwin Mothers Thankful after Storms

Alabama Robertsdale The storm damage actually started west of Elsanor near Loxley and in Robertsdale. With the amount of damage in those communities it's amazing there weren't more injuries.

by Debbie Williams

Published: Fri, March 27, 2009 - 3:25 pm CST Last Updated: Fri, March 27, 2009 - 4:48 pm CST

The sound of the storm has given way to the sound of chainsaws cleaning up what mother nature left behind in Robertsdale.
On Florida Street, broken trees, wind and rain did the damage.
"I woke up and said, oh my God we're about to be hit by a tornado." A massive oak tree crushed Jennifer Parsons home.
"I hear this loud bang, the worse noise that I could ever imagine and I knew that either the tornado had just hit my house or a tree fell on my house and it hit the corner of my house where my daughter's room is."
It was just after four o'clock in the morning. A horrendous noise as a tree crashes onto Jennifer Parsons house. All that's left of the roof is the part that covers where her little five year old daughter was sleeping.
"God's hand was over my entire house this morning and I am so thankful to him for protecting us," she says. But that wasn't all. "We walked out and saw the car was destroyed too, you know that little cherry on top."
Just north of Robertsdale, another mother is also thankful.
Her two year olds room looks like a bomb exploded, complete with shrapnel stuck in the wall. Two year old Gabriella was sleeping with her mother but that room didn't fare much better
"I felt stuff hitting my legs and the noise and I just jumped up, instinct." It wasn't until later that Kim Landeros and her family could see the extent of the damage their home had suffered along with their neighbors.
In the time it takes to snap a picture, the storm had come and gone leaving a lot of people in Baldwin County counting their blessings.

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