Edward Murray was in his home at Windcrest and Point Breeze in Cottage Point Trailer Park when a tornado picked up the structure and threw it on top of his neighbor's home.
He said that his house had turned upside down. The tornado took me off my feet and buried me under the east wall.
Murray and his daughter, Cokie, escaped unharmed, crawling from the wreck.
Murray said that he was happy when he saw the sky. I told the devil that it wouldn't be today.
According to the National Weather Service, a tornado hit the Iona section of Fort Myers on Sunday.
The mattress on Murray's daughter was flipped on her. She crawled out a window.
The family dog is missing.
By mid-morning, residents across Southwest Florida were taking shelter and heeding multiple tornado warnings stretching from north Collier County and across the gulf coast in Lee County and beyond.
The first tornado warning was issued by the National Weather Service.
Workers were boarding up homes at the trailer park as sheriff's deputies were patrolling the area. There are structures that have visible damage.
The National Weather Service confirmed that a tornado touched down.
Several parts of north Collier County had tornado warnings by 9:15 a.m. A tornado has been confirmed in that area.
Southwest Florida had an " active weather situation" with a tornado warning in Lee County, according to a National Weather Service forecaster.
He said something just came up.
The residents of Southwest Florida were greeted with a series of strong storms earlier in the day.
There have been TV reports of damage in some areas.
Other residents sustained minor damage near the Murrays' trailer.
The trailer had broken windows, and Jeff Funchion lives across from Murray.
He said that he had never been through something like this. The windows broke. The TV hit after the TV beeped.
The same thing was said by another resident.
Dan Langenfeld, who with his wife, Jan, are originally from Minnesota, had a rough wake-up call and the windows blew in. It didn't last long. The wife, dogs and I are all fine.
There are beer cans in the field.
Langenfeld said he would have a cold later.
A screen shot of our interactive weather radar.
The damage appears to be taking place in small "pockets" as it moves through Southwest Florida.
The emergency officials decided to evacuate the park, which was built in 1970.
Lee County had over 15,000 people without power, while Collier County had over 1,300.
The Florida Highway Patrol said a tornado upended and flipped a semi tractor-trailer truck on I-75 in Collier County. The lanes were open again.
A tornado flipped a semi tractor-trailer truck on its side, blocking traffic in Collier County at the 96 mile marker.
The tornado was spotted by troopers of the Florida Highway Patrol.
There were minor injuries from the crash.
There were minor injuries. There is one travel lane open.
This is not a finished story. Stay with news-press.com and naplesnews.com. We will have video and photos of the damage.
There are power outages.
There have been reports of storm related power failures.
In Lee County, there were 12,348 customers without electric power.
There are also reports of power failures in other areas, including portions of Cape Coral and Pine Island.
The areas with the most damage were in the north of the island and in the northeast.
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