Elberta hit with high winds

ELBERTA, Ala. (WALA) - Neighbors in an isolated area of Elberta, Alabama say they were hit by severe wind.

"I was so scared, I don't want to go through that again. It was the scariest thing I've ever seen or heard," said Tina Rogers of Elberta.

Residents on Cactus Court received quite a bit of property damage, and some shaken nerves.

Fortunately no one FOX10 to spoke with was injured.

Rogers was glued to her TV, watching the news. Meteorologists reported that a tornado watch was in effect for Baldwin County and moving east.

"It got really, really dark out and it started pouring down rain really bad and then all of a sudden, it stopped and it got real quiet," said Rogers. "I just stood there and froze."

Tina Rogers and her family have lived in Elberta for 18 years. They've experienced hurricanes, more than once.

But it was the loud wind ripping through their property that had them fearing for their home and their lives.

"Roaring like a train, it was really, really loud and my husband's like, 'Just stay down, stay down,'" said Rogers.

Rogers' husband moved her to the bathroom and pulled a mattress over them. Their household of cats and dogs cuddled up next to them.

She says it was over in a matter of minutes.

"I hope it don't take my house, we all knew it was tornado cause it was right in our area," said Rogers.

Down the street a neighbor lost a barn.

A witness told FOX10 off camera that horses inside the barn ran out and stood alongside a fence.

The neighbor described hearing a loud, high-pitched whistling sound as he watched the barn get dismantled by an invisible force.

"It came in over on the other side of the road and it didn't even touch ground out here, just kept going by," said a neighbor.

Rogers woke Sunday morning to a lawn strewn with pine tree branches, damage to a fence, and a storage shed that was pushed off its base.

Neighbors were cleaning up today, no one lost power during the event, and no one that we spoke to was hurt.