Storms that have been scouring the city of Knoxville have left behind huge amounts of damage in recent days.

The most affected was Madisonville, as building official Tony Wilson states that, “it’s very unsafe right now.”

Some of the damage included several trees being uprooted – not only were power lines knocked down, but one tree ended up smashing a shed into pieces, one tree destroyed a fence on its way down, and one tree even fell just a few feet from one Knoxville resident’s home. One resident recalls seeing the canopy of a convenience store totally collapse to the ground, while a major billboard unfortunately had a huge chunk ripped off of it.

According to Wilson, he avoided some of the damage because, “my car wasn’t being thrown from side to side so it’s amazing the wind must have just caught this just right.” A crew member out on the job to help clean up some of the damage, Jean Kirkland, recalls his thoughts while the storm was going on. He remembers thinking “boy, I can’t believe that the whole big roof that wind had to be so powerful that it just picked that up.”

One home in Knoxville was unfortunately not as lucky as some of the other homes that evaded damage – on Westwood Lane a tree was completely uprooted and crashed right through the roof of a house. While everyone in the home at the time of the incident is safe, they will have to use local Knoxville movers when packing and moving whatever belongings they can salvage, while they stay at a temporary location while waiting for their home to be repaired.