storms were so powerful in southwest
miami-dade that they are now
investigating whether a tornado touched
down late this afternoon local 10 News
reporter Christian della Rossa is live
to show us more Christian
we're long Southwest 122nd and this is
where we're hearing from so many
neighbors that they heard and saw a
tornado hit and take a look at some of
the damage that they are dealing with
we're talking power lines and this one's
a big one
take a look at the situation here though
a lot of neighbors are concerned of just
how much pressure that's putting on the
rest of the power lines on this street
and whether at some point those will
come down the power is out here the
cleanup is just beginning when I'm
bringing my own money your family was
here when all this happened and you guys
say this all happened so fast
describe to me what it was like I felt
like a jet turbine man it was as loud as
how everything just went off everything
started flying things got crazy over
here it was bad
it was really bad and then when this
hit the floor it was crazy and
obviously you have a lot of a lot of
cleanup to do now just beginning here
and again this is just some of the
damage we've seen a lot of downed trees
down power lines a lot of the traffic
lights are also out in the area the word
right now is be very very careful take a
look at more of what we've seen this
afternoon a possible tornado causing
this scene in southwest miami-dade
Anthony casa NOLA telling us he was
driving when everything turned white
outside and the wind picked up that wind
sending a palm tree branch into the
windshield shattering it
all of this unfolding along Southwest
120 ninth Avenue and Miller Drive
damaging roofs and sending more trees
down look at the label look at the later
how about some damage will be the pose
we found this power line down near 120
second where the power is out neighbors
say it happened so fast
again everything happened so quickly you
see so many neighbors on their phones
with insurance companies not trying to
figure out how they clean up this mess
as soon as we let you go we're gonna
continue surveying the damage and we'll
have a lot more for you coming up at
11:00 I'm Kristin the local 2 News and
Christian if you can't just kind of
survey the damage with us they're right
behind you we're looking at a lot of
trees that are down this is possibly
from those high winds correct sustained
high winds absolutely I mean I spoke
with one neighbor just moments ago who
told me her it sounded like an airplane
was taken off right next to their home
so we're talking a lot of downed trees
some power lines like this one traffic
lights are also out and of course that's
having a dangerous effect on traffic
we're gonna continue driving around and
see what else we find back to you and
Kristin we know they've been power
outages at last checked was about 3500
people without power in miami-dade
County have you seen any electrical
crews out there so far you know what I
can tell you is we've seen several F P
and L trucks that have been driving
around they appear to be surveying the
area it's usually what they do when you
have severe weather like this or
surveying the area to see which areas
will end up being a priority for tonight
then they'll start to work later on and
what about the roads in that area are
you seeing or hearing that some of the
roads in that area some of the
neighborhood streets are blocked off
from some of that debris you know at all
it almost seems like we may have reached
some of these areas that have been more
most affected before authorities were
able to arrive so we haven't seen a lot
of road closures but we do have
situations like this
where people are just having to be extra
cautious to make their way around and
avoid crashing into another vehicle
so hopefully whether it's police whether
it's Fire and Rescue will show up here
at some point and help with traffic out
here but just be very very cautious if
you're at home watching us right now and
you don't need to hit the road I just
don't do it wait a little while well
wait until authorities can get to
seeing's like this one and start the
cleanup Christian della Rossa live on
the scene there in southwest miami-dade
where possibly a tornado has touched
down if you are able to do so safely
we're asking you to send your pictures
to us as soon as you can Christian
thanks a lot