Tornado causes damage in Tennessee

Emily Ricks describes her experience of a tornado that cut through Coopertown, Tennessee, on May 8, causing damage.

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00:00 It just the wind picked up a lot and then it just it was just really windy

00:05 and then he was outside holding down our tent and he's screaming he was like I

00:10 think it's a tornado and I was like I don't know so that's when we came out we

00:17 have a bunch of trees down and that was about it. This is the worst I've ever seen it

00:21 here we've been here ten years I'm originally from Alabama so I've seen I've

00:25 seen some big tornadoes but this is the first time it's ever hit this close to

00:30 our house ever since we've been here. Our neighbors down the street he's our

00:34 niece and nephew they called and said that they saw it over our house and

00:38 that's why they called and so. But your house is fine? Yeah house is fine just trees down.

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