JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — A section of the Westside took a beating during Monday’s storms.
The damage is centered on the Marietta Lake area near Old Plank Road and Bulls Bay Highway.
Neighbors there are dealing with huge trees knocked over by the strong winds, and one woman even had a tree fall on her house.
“There was just a lot of wind, rain and hail,” said Patricia Groth, who was home Monday afternoon as strong winds blew a massive tree onto her house.
“When the tree falls, it makes a lot of noise,” she said, laughing.
That tree now sits in pieces on Groth’s curb.
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Behind her home, her neighbors’ tree toppled over from the roots up.
“I’m glad nobody was hurt; as you can see, the size of it could've killed someone,” she said.
The severe weather cut a path of downed trees, power lines and fences through the Westside around Marietta Lake, along with heavy rains.
“It was just like you were under a waterfall,” Groth said.
“The wind was going this way one minute; every direction really,” said Karen Sheldon, who lives a few blocks away from Marietta Lake and is cleaning up the damage to her yard.
“It really come up out of the blue and sucked flowers out of the flower pots, it sucked in a window, it threw my gazebo across the fence, it was hailing,” Sheldon said.
The First Alert Weather team says it was not a tornado that went through the area, but a microburst.
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