JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – For the second day in a row, severe storms have continued to pound Duval and St. Johns counties.
The storms affected areas like San Pablo, Oceanway, Neptune Beach, Craig Field, Riverside, San Marco and Tallyrand, with weather officials telling residents and drivers to take precautions as the storms moved through the area.
Severe thunderstorm and flood warnings were issued across Duval County with reports of damaging wind reaching gusts of 60 mph, hail and over 3 inches of rain falling in about an hour.
A mother of two felt the full force of those heavy winds and rain as an uprooted tree fell into the bedroom of one of her sons.
"Everything is normal when you initially walk in the house. There's no damage to the front bedroom, in the living room, as well as the dining room. But as soon as you cross over to the dining room, it's the second bedroom and there's a tree," Monique Burton, the mother of two, said. "All his belongings are underneath the rubble."
The rubble was created after the tree crashed into Burton's home while she was out grocery shopping and her two 15-year-old sons were at home playing video games.
"This is my sons' room. Thank God they were not in here because the tree was directly over one of the boy's beds," Burton said.
The boys called their mother after they heard a loud boom just before 6 p.m.
"He didn't know what it was initially, he just heard a sound and then I guess as it got a little louder, that's when he looked in and saw that there was a tree," Burton said.
Tuesday night, Burton was just trying to gather her thoughts, realizing that her home and all of her son's belongings have been ruined. But Burton said she's just thankful to have them alive.
"We're just going to go day-by-day and see what happens from here," Burton said.
With flooding being one of the other major factors in the damage felt by Jacksonville residents during Tuesday's spree of storms, residents learned the hard way what that flooding can do.
Ant Williams was just one of the people stuck in the torrential downpour that left him stuck in flooding for 45 minutes.
"My car just like stopped and it just shut off, and I was like what's going on. I couldn't see anything. The water was like up to like over the tire," Williams said. "I couldn't see because it was pouring down raining so I was just trying to, I live right here, so I was just trying to get back to my house."
It sounds like a simple task but the rain and his flooded street didn't make it very easy.
Williams, like many drivers in his Northside neighborhood took their chances through the floodwaters.
Many cars did make it through, but some cars, like Williams' got stuck, and water gushed in.
"Some water came out and if you look at it, the water is still in there. There's a little in the front too," Williams said.
Fortunately Williams' grandfather was able to pull him out with a truck, but next time, Williams said he'll just take an alternate route.
"I live in Florida and it rains all the time, but I didn't know I was living in a river," Williams said.