EF-1 tornado leaves thousands of residents without power for hours

A massive tree fell on power lines in the Grove Park neighborhood taking out power for hours. But the tornado not only uprooted a tree, but it also picked up an entire truck less than two miles away.

Wild video shows the moments the wind picked up a truck and flipped it onto Beach Boulevard on the Southside.

“I was definitely scared,” Drive Line employee Ellen Mitchell said.

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Ellen Mitchell and Victor Majauskas work at Drive Line and saw it all unfold around 2:15 p.m.

“We were sitting here, and we heard a pop, and the transformer just like ‘poof,’” Majauskas said.

The workers saw a funnel form in the Mainline Auto parking lot across the street.

“I noticed the rain started to move up from the ground instead of downwards and I was like, ‘Oh my goodness, something is about to go down,’” Mitchell said. “And then I saw the funnel form and I’m like, ‘What is about to happen?’ Then I start to see the funnel completely form, pick up a Tacoma from across the street, and flip it four times.”

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