NORFOLK, Va. — Strong winds damaged an apartment building Sunday in the Willoughby area of Ocean View in Norfolk.
It came on the same night that EF-3 tornado damaged more than a hundred homes in the Great Neck area of Virginia Beach.
The National Weather Service told News 3's Leondra Head that winds with speeds of 75 to 80 miles per hour damaged an apartment building in the 1300 block of West Oceanview.
National Weather Service Meteorologist-In-Charge Jeff Orrock said the damage appeared to have been caused by straight-line winds.
"A lot of shingles removed, some siding here and there," he said. "It's across a broad area down here."
A few units are condemned because of the damage. One resident says when she looked out of the window, her car was completely crushed.
"The Volkswagen bug, that was my car. May she rest in peace. She’s a convertible and it took most of the apartment. The winds just picked up really fast and all my neighbor’s stuff was flying by my apartment and a loud bang. It went really quiet. I opened up the shade and saw the apartment building on my car," Jennifer Dimick, a Norfolk resident said.
Dimick and a few other tenants were displaced from their homes.
The residents say the apartment building’s management company is putting them up in a hotel.
There were no immediate reports of injuries.
