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COMING UP IN YOUR FULL FORECAST. ALL RIGHT, JORDAN, THANK YOU. WELL, THE STORMS THROUGHOUT OUR AREA PACKED A PUNCH, ESPECIALLY IN TRUSSVILLE. YOU CAN SEE THE MAJORITY OF THESE TREES COMPLETELY UPROOTED FROM THOSE STRONG WINDS, SOME TOPPLING ONTO ROADS AND POWER LINES, LEAVING MANY PEOPLE STILL WITHOUT POWER TONIGHT. MORE THAN 4900 OUTAGES ARE BEING REPORTED AT THIS HOUR. STATEWIDE, ABOUT 4100 OF THOSE ARE IN JEFFERSON AND SAINT CLAIR COUNTIES. THAT IS WHERE WE FIND �������� 13 ZOE BLAIR, WHERE SHE SPENT THE DAY SPEAKING TO THOSE IMPACTED BY THE SEVERE STORMS. AND ZOE, WHERE YOU’RE AT NOW, PEOPLE ARE STILL IN THE DARK. YEAH. GLADYS THAT’S RIGHT. YOU CAN SEE THERE’S THERE’S NO STREET LIGHTS HERE WHERE WE ARE. THE ONLY LIGHTS WE HAVE RIGHT NOW ARE FROM OUR CAMERAS. AND I’M GOING TO SHOW YOU JUST A LITTLE BIT OF WHAT WE’VE BEEN SEEING TODAY. I’M GOING TO STEP OUT OF THE FRAME SO YOU CAN SEE IT. A LOT OF TREES DOWN. I DON’T KNOW HOW WELL YOU CAN SEE IT IN THE DARK, BUT THERE’S A GIANT TREE BACK THERE ON A HOUSE. LOTS OF POWER LINES DOWN. AND THE TREE THAT’S ON THAT HOUSE BACK THERE ACTUALLY TRAPPED THE WOMAN WHO LIVES INSIDE, INSIDE HER HOME. SHE DIDN’T MAKE IT OUT UNTIL 5:00 THIS AFTERNOON. I OPENED MY BLINDS AND I SAW. I SAW THE END OF THE TREE. I SAW THE ROOTS, AND I WAS LIKE, OH MY GOODNESS. THE HOUSE HAS BEEN HIT BY A TREE. PHYLLIS BROWN WOKE UP TO THE SOUND OF A TREE CRASHING DOWN ON HER HOUSE, TRAPPING HER INSIDE. IT WASN’T MUCH DAMAGE TO THE FRONT BECAUSE I THOUGHT IT MIGHT HAVE GOT THE DOOR OR SOMETHING ELSE, AND I CONTINUED TO LOOK. AND WHEN I GOT TO MY KITCHEN, I SAW THAT MY FRONT DOOR WAS COMPLETELY COVERED BY THE TREE. I OPENED THE REST OF THE BLINDS AND THE WHOLE FRONT PART OF THE HOUSE WAS COVERED WITH THE TREE, BROWN SAYS. WHILE SHE WAS TRAPPED, NEIGHBORS AND POLICE CHECKED ON HER. BUT IT TOOK OFFICERS A LITTLE LONGER TO FIND HER HOME. THEY CAME BY AND DID A CHECK AND SAID, YOU KNOW, WE PASSED THE HOUSE. WE DIDN’T EVEN NOTICE IT WAS A HOUSE THERE BECAUSE THERE WAS SO MUCH DAMAGE, OR THE TREE KIND OF BLOCKED EVERYTHING. AROUND 5:00 PM, AFTER SPENDING HOURS TRAPPED IN HER HOME WITHOUT POWER, BROWN FINALLY MADE IT TO SAFETY. I KIND OF HAD TO COME THROUGH THE SAME HOLE THAT THE POLICE OFFICERS CAME THROUGH TO DO THEIR WELLNESS CHECK OR WHATEVER, SO I CAME UNDER THAT I HAD TO CLIMB OVER THE TREE BECAUSE I WASN’T JUMPING FENCES. AND IT WAS A LITTLE DIFFICULT TO KIND OF GET OVER THAT TREE, BUT WE WERE ABLE TO I SPOKE WITH HER JUST AFTER SHE MADE IT OUT OF THE HOUSE, AND IT WAS HER FIRST TIME REALLY SEEING ALL THE DAMAGE. NOW SHE’S GRATEFUL IT WASN’T MUCH WORSE. VERY, VERY, VERY, VERY GRATEFUL. VERY, VERY GRATEFUL BECAUSE WE DEFINITELY COULD HAVE BEEN WAY WORSE. ESPECIALLY ME SEEING THAT TREE ROOT IS RIGHT HERE AND HOW BIG IT IS AND HOW CLOSE IT CAME. AND IF IT HAD JUST SHIFTED, LIKE YOU SAID, JUST A LITTLE BIT, IT COULD HAVE BEEN FATAL. THANKFULLY, SHE DID MAKE IT OUT AND ACROSS OUR AREA. DESPITE ALL OF THE DAMAGE WE’VE SEEN TODAY, NOBODY. WE HAVE NOT HEARD OF ANY INJURIES IN OUR AREA. AND LIKE I SAID, LIKE YOU AND GLADYS SAID EARLIER, YOU KNOW, WE ARE STILL IN THE DARK TONIGHT OUT HERE. MANY OF THE FOLKS OUT HERE ARE WE HAVE HEARD FROM ALABAMA POWER. THEY HAD CREWS WORKING ALL NIGHT LAST NIGHT, AND WE’VE SEEN SEVERAL CREWS OUT TODAY WORKING TO GET YOUR POWER BACK ON. SO HOPEFULLY IF YOU ARE STILL WITHOUT POWER, HOPEFULLY YOU WILL HAVE IT SO