HISEVILLE — There was no time to react, Mike Coomer said. To what, no one is officially sure, but he believes it was a tornado.
The National Weather Service said there had been no reports of a tornado in Barren County from Saturday.
“They’re supposed to come out and tell if it’s tornado,” he said, but he doesn’t know when.
Coomer and his wife, Paula, had watched weather updates on a Bowling Green television station about 8 p.m. Saturday night and were ready to go to bed when the wind roared.
“They said it was all clear for Barren County when the wind started blowing. There was rain and lightning,” Mike Coomer said. “We heard a roar and a whistling sound.”
Paula jumped up and said, “what should we do?”
“By that time it was over with,” Mike Coomer said. “We didn’t have time to do anything.”
They were left in a dark house without power, but they were able to see outside something had happened.
“We tried to go out the back door but it was blocked by some limbs and when I looked out the front door, that garage didn’t look quite right,” he said Monday morning, pointing to a garage visibly shifted from its foundation.
In the backyard, a large tree had been uprooted and was leaning against another garage behind the brick house. It had downed the power line running to the house.
Out front, a line of shingles littered a trail to two more uprooted trees, one pine and one cypress. More debris sprinkled a field beyond a fence line and across the road on the other side of the field, about 300 yards from Coomer’s trees, another couple of trees were splintered.
“It’s like it just went right through the front yard,” he said.
Barren County was under a tornado warning for much of Saturday evening, as were surrounding counties.
The last tornado to officially strike Barren County, according to the National Weather Service, was Jan. 10, 2008. It traveled more than three miles after touching down along Millstown Road southwest of Park City.
The damage done at the Coomers’ home is about two miles from Hiseville on Jack Smith Road. Mike Coomer said it took Farmer’s RECC only about 30 minutes to get to his house to restore power.
There have been no other reports of damage in Barren County from Saturday’s.
Mike Coomer agreed he and his wife are lucky and unlucky at the same time, but he’s looking at the positive.
“We’re lucky to be alive, I’ll tell you that,” he said.
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