MEMPHIS, Tennessee — The ice storm that swept through the Mid-South Thursday caused destruction and disruption everywhere.
Residents are no stranger to trees toppling over, and they saw it again.
One example was along Forrest Avenue and North Evergreen Street, where a large tree uprooted and fell across the entire roadway, smashing the front end of a truck and causing slight damage to another vehicle parked in front of it.
“It was kind of disbelief at first like, 'Come on. How could this happen right now?'," Ethan Chamberlin said.
Chamberlin, a college student at Rhodes, said he didn't hear a thing when a massive tree came crashing down onto his truck, smashing its windshield and damaging its hood. He had been fast asleep.
It wasn't until his roommates knocked on his door telling him he needed to go outside that he found out what had happened.
"I hope it can be fixed but I don’t know if it’s going to be worth it cost-wise, so I’m not really sure what I’m going to do about it," he said.
One man told Local 24 that the big trees in Midtown may be beautiful to look at but falling down damaging property is a normality of living in the area.
