RANDOLPH COUNTY - Straight line winds and tornadoes are different disasters, but they are often confused because the damage looks the same.
After severe weather crisscrossed mid-Missouri on Monday, the Carr household felt the blowing of the wind. There is not much left of Patty Carr's roof. She left her home for three hours on Monday afternoon and came home to find chaos.
"We just knew there was a bad storm coming, and I probably shouldn't stay home," she said.
The National Weather Service says straight-line winds whipped through the Carr's home, some as high as sixty miles an hour. The winds ripped off the roof, peeled off the siding and even off set the frame a quarter-inch from the foundation. All of the damage leaves the Carr's without a home.
"We're living with family right now at this point of time in Moberly until we find out what we're going to do," Carr said. "If we're going to restructure the house or if we're going to build something different or rent something else."
The Carr's damage is the worst around the Cairo area.
"We drove around and we talked with different people. They have a few shingles missing and stuff like that, but nothing this severe."
The Carrs do not have insurance, so the family will look to the Red Cross for help. Luckily, Patty Carr, her husband, and their seventeen-year-old son were away from home at the time of the storm, and not physically injured.