Chickasaw county trees down after storms

Some counties are recovering from Friday nights storms. On Saturday in Chickasaw County road crews, volunteers, and fire and rescue teams got together to remove the leftover debris.

County and found road crews, volunters, and fire and rescue teams got together to remove the leftover debris.

"friday night storms left several trees on the roads including the natchez trace and here on county road 79."

Sot: "it's wide spread so they are having to move from one side of the county to the other."

Linda griffin - chickasaw county ema all night leading up until this morning, road crews worked to clear the roads.

Linda griffn the ema for chickasaw county said they received several calls throughout the county and city about trees blocking the roads.

One of those calls came from the natchez trace.

Nat sound near the houston exit on the natchez trace traffic was at a standstill for nearly 20 minutes.

One family came in town to see other family members.

They helpedthe road crews removed the tree from the road so that everyone could get through.

Sot: "we do like to help but we don't like to but in when we are not going to be of use.

So, i said maybe we can help here."

The edwards family - volunteers nat sound with the help from volunteers, the edwards and their truck, they made progress to remove the tree.

Sot: "so the tree was a little bigger than the truck, so we had to wait for backup."

The edwards family that backup was the vanvleet fire and rescue team.

They spent their day helping road crews remove trees from the roads - but to their surprise... sot: "more tree's fell since last night, that's how much damage was done."

Terry ray rhodes - vanvleet assistant fire chief as for griffin, she said the fallen trees affected traffic in chickasaw county but power lines too, she said the power companies had crews too.

Sot: "power, power companies are out full force, we are hoping everyone has power restored by later tonight."

Linda griffin tag: chickasaw county ema linda griffn told me the roads should be clear by the end of the day.

Reporting in chickasaw county, taylor tucker wtva 9 news.

This is video sent to us by wtva's alyssa martin.