Hanahan, SC - The clean up process begins for folks in Hanahan hit hard by Saturday night’s tornado.

Neighbors called it a wild night of weather.

“In a matter of less than five minutes, it just blew in,” Cathy Clark described.

“It started to hail,” Sheree Burris said. “The trees started to snap and they hit the house.”

“There are hundreds of broken off tree limbs,” Tom Smith, the Director of Emergency Preparedness for Berkeley County, said. “It’s minor house damage so far and power line damage.”

Sheree Burris has lived in her Hanahan home off Recess Road for three months. She has barely been able to settle in before what she thought was a pop up storm rattled her to the core.

“It was loud,” she said. “It reminded me of a hurricane when it got to it’s strongest.

The National Weather Service (web | news) says it was an EF-0 tornado with winds between 70 to 85 miles per hour.

“It moved so quickly. It had to be a tornado; there is nothing else it could be,” Burris added.

Crews were still working Sunday afternoon, picking up downed power lines, sawing trees off houses and rushing to turn the power back on.

As of 5:00 p.m. Sunday nearly 300 people were still without power in the area.

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