LONGWOOD, Fla. — After an EF-2 tornado ripped through parts of Seminole County, some homeowners say they don't know where to start.

On Tuesday, Emily Sless started small, picking up leaves and tree branches that flew into her front-yard.

“We’re just trying to pick up as much debris as we can,” she said.

She says the worst part of the damage is her pool cage that caved into itself.

“50 feet into the backyard and it’s just all chaos,” she said. “Anybody I think can attest to this, on the street, nothing ever of us have ever experienced before.”

Sless says the seconds-long tornado destruction has been overwhelming.

“Couches cut in half, windows sliders blown out,” she said. “I don’t even know where to start back here. It’s people’s memories.”

Sless says she’s thankful no one was hurt.

“Everybody on our street was safe and they’re OK, and they’ve all come together, and we’ve all been helping each other in some way and things can be replaced,” she said.

Sless says no one, including her neighbors, was prepared for this amount of destruction.

“Within a matter of 20 seconds, it came, and it left all this for us,” she said.

She’s hopeful all the damage will be fixed, but says rebuilding will take a couple months.

Alan Harris, the county’s emergency manager, says right now public works crews are out.

He believes they’ll finish debris pickup in a week, but it could be longer.

Roads were cleared yesterday, and all that debris is on the side of road. They’re picking it up and clearing it out of the area.

Residents that are seniors, disabled or have problems picking up debris in the yard, you can contact the citizen’s hotline at 407-665-0000.