Families begin long cleanup after Heber storm

This is such a new thing. We don't get tornadoes in Heber-Overgaard. We don't even really get tornadoes here in Arizona that do damage. Once you see all the damage that's out there and how lucky we are that there are no fatalities or no serious injuries, I'm just very thankful for that. First tonight at nine, an Arizona community cleaning up from a suspected tornado. The storm injured at least one person and damaged 30 homes in Heber-Overgaard last night. A church also damaged. And tonight we're hearing from people living there describing what they saw and what they heard during last night's storm. Fox 10's Megan Spector heard from some neighbors up there helping each other pick up the pieces. This community was hit hard. Neighbors tell us they spent today clearing debris and assessing all the damage left behind. In this Heber-Overgaard neighborhood, reminders of last night's storm are scattered on every block. It's just like out of the movie. It's like watching Twister back in the 90s. It's just still looks like Twister back in the 90s. Ron Nixon's dad lives on this street. Ron is now helping him pick up the pieces. Wind hit and blew out the front windows. We got those boarded up, ripped off the front half of the shingles on this house and the outside garage. One of the sheds in the neighbor's yard next door is my dad's. Just around the corner, Suzanne Masterson found her shed had flown into her house. That lifted from the corner, back corner of the yard. It lifted, blew. the storm toppled massive trees into homes and onto cars you heard pow boom and then it was hailing and wind was blowing hard and just the thunder and the noise and that was enough to scare anybody but residents are also frustrated they say emergency alerts came too late if they came at all not to offer so that's what's disturbing for a lot of us that needs to to happen a lot sooner. No alert. No, not that we're aware of. No, there wasn't any alerts. So yeah, it's, there was zero time. The good news, officials confirmed no one was seriously hurt, but the long process to rebuild is just beginning. It's been a lot of work. It's exhausting. It's devastating. It's hard to see. It's hard to see. This is my dad's retirement dream to watch it almost go just down the drain. It's a lot. It's a lot dealing with the phone calls, the insurance companies and claims and claims adjusters and appointments and it's it's a lot reporting in Heber-Overgaard, Megan Spector, Fox 10 News, wow you can tell by what it sounds like that's hail coming down severe storm hitting near Show Low today this video showing it all coming down near uh linden and nearby why it's sending us this video and the hail was really hitting hard it looks like a blizzard or snow but yeah that's hail four people are safe tonight after a dramatic helicopter rescue in Yavapai County. Take a look at this new video. It's showing the moment that the crews rescued four people. They were up there stranded on the roof of their car after that vehicle was swept away by floodwaters. They were spotted 150 feet downstream. A DPS Ranger helicopter moved in to fly everyone to safety. And in Kingman, a truck stuck in the floodwaters there. This video sent in by Ron. You can see a crew working to get the driver out of the water with a ladder there. We had some new video tonight showing the storm system that caused those multiple straight days of this severe weather as it moved across the southwest. But now the warnings and the alerts are quieting down for the moment. Let's check in with Corey. Corey, you can take a breath now. Yeah, do you mind if I deliver some good news? Yeah, we'll take it. Well, we've got it for you. In fact, within the next two hours or so, we may actually be rain-free across Arizona. Here's what the big map looks like and again the state is still covered by a flash flood watch so keep that in mind any additional rainfall in the green zone that you are seeing there could certainly cause some additional troubles and I think we're as I said going to be out of the woods before too long I'll take what we're seeing here the warning that is off of the map so you can get a better idea of where the rain is falling and there's not much left as you see over here in Mohave County we've got a few showers going they are not amounting to much and as we track across Coconino and Navajo and Apache counties and southward everything is starting to push its way off into New Mexico and that is just fine with us when we get together here in a few minutes we'll take a look at the full forecast and see where the weekend will take us I think you'll like it it's all in just a couple of minutes, you guys. Yeah, more hail today in Arizona. Thanks to our viewer Mary for sending us this video today. This is coming from Prescott as she's showing you all that hail hitting her back patio. And check out this shot here. This is drone video showing the hailstorm today from Sedona, or at least the clouds moving through. Wow, quite the sight. There it is. There's all the hail hitting someone's backyard. Thanks, Martin, for sending this in. You can see the clouds in the distance as well. And yeah, it was a busy day up there.