MEMPHIS, Tenn. — People were cleaning up from two waves of storms that moved through the area Wednesday and Thursday.
Parts of a tree fell on a home in the 1500 block of Willis in North Memphis early Thursday morning.
The tree limbs crashed through the ceiling knocking debris on two young girls sleeping on the living room floor below.
“There was just white all over the body. I put them in the bathroom and called the fire department and police, and they came and said to wash their faces off,” said Lee Holley.
Holley and his girlfriend said their daughters were scared, but checked out fine at the hospital.
“Thank God everyone is okay,” said Danyell Hill.
Holley and Hill moved into their rental home on Willis two weeks ago.
The couple said they spent all the money on the move and aren’t sure where they will go now.
“I just want to tell everybody to pray for us now,” said Hill.
Holley said the family had just settled in when it happened.
A tree also fell on a house in the 1100 block of Wright in the Nutbush area.
Some tree limbs there took out a car parked on Kelly Circle near the University of Memphis.
Thursday morning, some large tree branches also blocked the roadway at Peabody and MLK in Midtown.
Two house fires, one in the 1900 block of Tant and the other on East Dempster Avenue are being blamed on the severe weather.
Firefighters told WREG the house on East Dempster in South Memphis was started by lightning.