Cleaning up the destruction in Alvin after Saturday's tornado

ALVIN, Texas - There's still a lot of cleaning up to do after six tornadoes were confirmed to have hit the Houston area over the weekend. In Alvin, one woman died in the storm.

The deadly tornado that touched down in Alvin left a path of destruction and residents whose homes have been destroyed spent Tuesday trying to clean up and save what they can.

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"We're seeing a lot of damage, but it's been very sporadic. Some houses were not touched. Others were wiped out," explains Francisco Philibert with the American Red Cross.

"Immediately, all the neighbors got together and just started helping each other," says Marci Moody through tears, standing in front of her severely damaged home. At a neighbor's house, there was a pick-up truck on top of the garage and an overturned RV right at their back door. 

"The power of a tornado is just unbelievable," says Philibert.  

"This enclosed trailer that we have, it flew, evidently, over their house and over that tree line back there, and I would assume those are probably 50, 60-foot-tall trees, and landed in somebody's front yard," Moody says.

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"My house was moved by several feet. It moved about four and a half feet to the south and two and a half feet to the front. There's glass blown in rooms that doors weren't even open at the time. We really can't keep anything; furniture and stuff only because of the rain and moisture and that's not worth it for me. (Everything was soaked in the rain?) Yes, the whole house was soaked inside. It's just crazy seeing the things that blew in, and we don't even know where they came from," Moody added.

Her neighbor has one of those big ride-on toy trucks inside their garage that doesn't belong to them.

"What they seem to need the most out here is basic things: gloves, rakes, shovels. That kind of thing and we're supplying those things," says Philibert.

The non-profit, The Clothing Outlet, which is set up at First Presbyterian Church of Alvin on W. Blum Street, is giving away necessities to storm victims. They have collected and are donating everything from clothing and shoes to towels, toys and bed covers.