LARGO, Fla. — As more rain trickles down across Tampa Bay, dozens of people in Largo are cleaning up after Tuesday's severe weather tore through a mobile home park off of Seminole Boulevard.
Seven homes in Pointe West Mobile Home Park have been marked uninhabitable by Largo Fire and Rescue. A total of fifteen homes were severely damaged. Many roofs were torn off and carports crumpled.
Sherri Barros was at work when the storm passed through. Her neighbor called her and told her what happened. She dropped everything and came straight home.
"The carport roof was destroyed and the roof of the bathroom, part of the kitchen and the back end of the mobile home was destroyed and it flew over and onto hit the other neighbor's yard," Barros said.
She said when she got home and saw the mess her home had become, she was nearly speechless.
"It was devastating when I came home and found that it's not safe. It's not safe to be here. And it was scary," Barros added.
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As neighbors clean up the damage, people have come out to help, just to lend a hand to those in need.
"The people here survived a devastating blow. But the fortunate thing is nobody was hurt," Anthony Grau said.
Grau has provided maintenance services on some of the trailers and drove in to help as soon as he heard what happened. Many of the residents at Pointe West are snowbirds, calling in to see if their home is okay.
"The price of what these costs right now in this economy is in the 1000s of damage on a trailer," Grau said, gesturing to the metal roofing sheets used for carports.
Just down the road, more homes were damaged in the same neighborhood. John Horwood was home during the storm. He ducked into his laundry room just in time.
"Everything started to shake — the walls were just shaking," Horwood said. "So I came inside, tell my wife to come out of the trailer. And, she said, 'Well, it's too late now. She said, 'The roof has gone from our sun porch.'"
Now, he and others are securing tarps to their roofs hoping it will prevent further damage.
The National Weather Service said the damage was caused by 60 mph straight-line winds.
Malique Rankin is a general assignment reporter with 10 Tampa Bay. You can email her story ideas at mrankin@10tampabay.com and follow her Facebook, X, and Instagram pages.