Recovering from storm damage in Jackson County

Riverlodge Drive in Escatawpa saw significant damage from this morning’s storm.

Almost every house along Riverlodge Drive received damage from the early morning storm and residents were left shaken. Resident Kim Goff said, “It was just a lot of rumbling and a lot of loud wind and then something hit the house really hard. I mean, like a really hard hit. It was just scary. It was very scary.”

Kim Goff took News 25 inside her home where she believes part of her neighbors’ roof hit her house right above her son’s bed where a large hole is now gaping through the ceiling. “And then we had another hard hit and we were actually standing in the doorway of his bedroom trying to decide where we need to go and then all of the sudden there was sheet rock from the ceiling kind of floating around the room after the hard hit and then it started raining in.”

That neighbor, David Ursy, wasn’t home when it happened because he had taken his daughter to school. When he arrived back home he found both sides of his home’s roof ripped off. The remains of the roof landed in a neighbor’s yard across the street. “It’s not a good feeling to have your house torn up, but this is all material. It can be replaced just as long as nobody got hurt, no family members, or kids on the street or neighbors got hurt so we’re good.”

Ursy’s positivity wasn’t rare among the residents on the street in Jackson County. If you looked at their faces you wouldn’t think a significant storm had just ripped through their homes because to them everyone is safe so they feel blessed. “Everybody kind of come together and helped one another repair what needed to be repaired, but we’ve very much a family here. I just thank God that we’re all okay,” said Goff.