MOULTRIE, Ga. — Shirley Conger, her husband and their dogs were sitting in the living room of their mobile home on Old Norman Park Road when Tuesday night’s storm hit.

Her daughter called on the phone with a warning. The weather was getting bad and they needed to get to Conger’s brother’s brick house next door.

“I told her we’ve done waited too late,” Conger recalled on Wednesday.

Conger’s mobile home itself suffered little damage, but the back porch was torn off. Part wound up on the roof and the rest in the front yard, she said in a phone interview.

“We were sitting in a half-a-room distance from where it hit,” she said, “and all of a sudden there was the horriblest noise!”

Still, she said, God is good: No one in her household was hurt. And no other house in the neighborhood appeared to have been damaged at all, she said.

It was a story repeated throughout the county Tuesday night, Colquitt County Emergency Management Director Russell Moody said. Several houses were damaged, including some that were hit by trees, but they were scattered throughout the county.

As far as officials know, no one in Colquitt County was physically injured by the storm, Moody said.

A chicken house was destroyed on the west side of the county, he said, and lots of trees fell across roadways.

He said all roads were open at the time The Observer spoke with him, around 11 a.m. Wednesday.

“We’re just picking up what’s left on the side of the road,” he said. County crews had cut fallen trees and shoved them to the side of the road Tuesday night to get the roads passable as quickly as possible. Wednesday’s mission was to clear away that debris.

A fallen tree caused at least one automobile accident, according to Colquitt County Sheriff’s Office reports. Amanda Taylor of Willacoochee told a deputy she had hit a tree that had fallen on Highway 37 East near Ellis May Road. Her headlight and bumper were damaged, but no one was hurt, the deputy reported.

Another motorist told deputies he was trying to wait out the storm in the parking lot of Fast Trac, 1331 Highway 319 North, when a round sign fell off the building and hit the passenger door of his car. He wasn’t hurt, either.

Joni Fox, a spokeswoman for Colquitt EMC, said 6,000 homes were without power at the peak of the storm, but by Wednesday power had been restored to all customers except about 12 who had damage to their property that made it unsafe to resume power.

“Everything we can turn on is back up,” she said.

Colquitt County has received damage in three storms since the first of the year — although the January storms hit surrounding counties much harder than here.

Moody said a problem has become clear through these three storms. Homeowners whose power has been knocked out have swamped the 911 center with calls. He said the 911 dispatchers don’t know any more about electrical service than the homeowners do, and he strongly encouraged homeowners to call their electric company instead. The waves of calls about power outages hampered the dispatchers in sending out fire, ambulance and law enforcement units during the storms, he said.