City crews were going from location to location on Wednesday, cutting up trees that had fallen from yards into streets after the fierce Tuesday afternoon storms.
There were at least six calls for help.
One of the largest measured about 30 feet in diameter until the rain softened the ground enough to tip it over into an intersection in a College Park neighborhood.
Myrna Shelby used to watch her children grow up and climb around the laurel oak in her yard on the corner of Sheridan Blvd and Eastin Lane.
"It just sounded like a big rumbling. It just very gently tipped over," she said.
"It wasn't like a fast, you know, crash. When we heard it, I knew what had happened."
She said she will replant, although not another laurel oak, because of their shallow roots,
Another laurel oak fell in a front yard on Wren Lane near Baldwin Park.
It blocked a driveway and part of the street until crews by mid-afternoon were able to get enough trucks and chainsaws to the scene to chop it up and haul it off.
A neighbor across the street told News 96.5 that an elderly man lives in the home. The tree fell around 4:30 p.m. Tuesday.
At about the same time, another tree fell on top of a Ford van parked in front of a home on Lionel Avenue at W. Church Street.
The homeowner said he heard a loud sound and came outside to see the tree draped over his vehicle, parked at the curb.
A city crew cut away the branches and left a pile on the curbside for later pickup.