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Repairs ongoing after Monday storm
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A ruined trampoline frame sits upside down outside a home. - photo by Photo by Joe Parker, Jr.
Homeowners are still working to repair damage done by a freak windstorm that hit the Arlen Woods area in Midway on Dec. 31.
Assistant County Administrator Bob Sprinkel said a “wind shear micro burst” struck an area about 200 yards wide and a mile long, including Arlen Woods and areas on Highway 84 and Bill Carter Road.
No injuries were reported, although trees, roofs, Christmas decorations, a brick wall and other objects and structures were damaged or destroyed.  
Sprinkel said the damage reported to 18 homes was mostly minor, such as having a few shingles blown off. He complimented emergency workers on their response, placing tarps on damaged roofs and walls and clearing fallen trees and debris: “They were really doing a good job.”
Among the responders was retiring emergency management chief Tom Burriss who spent his last few official hours on the job at the storm scene.
One home, on an exposed corner lot, had the brick wall of a garage peeled off the structure by winds estimated at upwards of 100 mph.
Many of the damaged residences were within sight of Liberty Elementary School.
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Early morning accident in McIntosh County kills five
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Five people were killed and another one was injured following a two-vehicle accident in McIntosh County on Sunday morning.

Witnesses told Georgia State Patrol Trooper Christopher Ashdown that a Jeep Cherokee was traveling south on Interstate 95 at a high rate of speed when it rear-ended an Infiniti. The Cherokee hit a guard rail, bursting into flames. The crash and ensuing fire killed one adult and four children.

The driver of the Jeep Cherokee has been identified a Reagan Dougan, 27. GSP troopers have learned she rented the vehicle in Raleigh, N.C., and was heading to Florida to meet her husband. The children were a 9-year-old boy, a 4-year-old boy, a 2-year-old girl and a 3-month-old boy.

Ashdown said the Cherokee was a rental and authorities are in the process of identifying the victims.  The driver of the Infiniti, from Long County, was transported to Southeast Regional Health System in Brunswick with non-life-threatening injuries.

The accident occurred at mile marker 62 around 6 a.m.

 

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