DeLAND, Fla. – Monday morning’s tornadic storm rattled awake 12-year-old Chris Torres and his family after a large oak tree on their property came crashing down. “I heard like a big crack and then a big boom,” said Torres as he was outside cleaning up all the branches near his home. “I came outside and the wind was pushing me away.
It was strong.” Emmary Blancas also lives inside the home and felt the tremor. [RELATED: Tornadoes touch down near Sanford, DeLand, Ocala | PHOTOS, VIDEOS: 3 tornadoes confirmed in Central Florida] “The tree branches started hitting me in the face and in the neck, and a little bit the tree fell and the house kind of shook,” Blancas said.