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HANAHAN, S.C. (WCSC) - Despite Hurricane Helene making landfall in Florida, the storm’s winds toppled trees, leaving a Lowcountry mobile home a total loss.

“By the time you really heard something it was over. Bam! And that was it. It sounded like a pinecone hitting the top of the trailer or something and all of a sudden bam it was gone,” Leonard Hollins says.

He was inside the mobile home at about 5:30 a.m. Friday when the trees came down. He says he was lucky to be in the middle room, where he was physically not hurt and able to get out the destruction. The oak and pine toppled in the winds, hitting each other and leaving the home in tatters.

“My dad’s been living here since ‘86. He got real ill because of cancer and stuff, so I moved in to help him out, and he passed away about three months ago,” Hollins says. “And if he didn’t pass away where he was sitting at the table breakfast or drinking coffee this morning, it would have got, the tree would have got him.”

The trees crushed a new car parked out front that was just two weeks old. Hollins is calling it a total loss as well.

“Forty-something years, I go to sleep at night thinking one day a tree is going to come through this bad boy and here it was,” Hollins says.

Jamie Lewis lives at the corner of Old Pointe Road and says his family owned the land for the trailer park for a while. It is his routine to walk around and check out any damage and check on people after a storm.

“Our benchmark is pretty much Hugo, because I was here during Hugo, and actually this, we had some damage during that, but this is worse than that. We came across this, and it’s probably the worst I’ve seen,” Lewis says.

His daughter, Caisa, went on the walk with him and says overnight she could tell how strong the winds were.

“I remember last night, I woke up kind of at like 3 a.m. because I heard something,” she says. “And then I, like, started hearing the rain kind of going hard, then softer. And I kept thinking some of something was coming towards me.”

When she and her dad came up on Hollins’ home, they were shocked as well.

“It was crazy seeing this for the first time in person because I’ve never actually seen a real-life storm, like there’s that in person. It’s like, way worse than Ian was,” she says.

Many people in the neighborhood have lived there a long time. Hollins says he knows most all of his neighbors and it’s really a crazy sight to see his home destroyed while every other on the street is still standing. Hollins says he isn’t the kind of person to ask for help, but he’s not exactly sure what will happen next.

“I’m going to reach out to some friends and families and see if I can stay with them for a little while, until I get a place to live,” he says. “But other than that, I don’t know. It’s like everything somehow to see you don’t know what to do.”

Hollins, his neighbors and his brother and sons say they are grateful he made it out physically unharmed.

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