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Straight line winds destroy home, uproot trees
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Crews clean up a mobile home splintered by straight-line winds early Tuesday morning near Portal. - photo by Courtesy Ted Wynn, Bulloch Public Safety
Wild winds returned to the county early Tuesday morning, little more than a week after a tornado wrought havoc in the Portal area. While strong winds roared across the county around 4:15 a.m. Tuesday, causing downed trees and structural damage in several areas, "the Portal area seems to be in the bullseye right now," said Bulloch County Public Safety Director Ted Wynn. Last Saturday, a tornado splintered two mobile homes in the Portal area, twisting trees and yanking them up from their roots.
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