ATOKA COUNTY -- Severe thunderstorms started to pick up around 2:30 Wednesday afternoon in Southern Oklahoma. High winds, rain, lightening and even spouts of small hail knocked down trees and power lines from parts of Atoka County down South to sections of Marshall County. First News talked to one family just outside of Atoka that says they may have received more than just straight line winds.

Neighbors are already pitching in to help the Evans family clean up. But Briley Evans, 14, said he never expected this; Wednesday afternoon started off like most summer days.

"I was sitting on the couch watching TV. It started raining and it just got worse and worse and the winds picked up really bad,” Briley said.

The teen was home alone at his house just four miles West of Atoka, when the storms hit. But the young man didn't just sit idle inside while winds whipped outside.

"I grabbed the dogs up and got in the bath tub,” Briley explained. “I was thinking I just hope the house doesn’t blow away and everyone is alright."

While Briley hunkered down inside the bathtub, winds outside picked his four wheeler and tossed more than 20 feet from its trailer. The storm also leveled the family’s lawnmower shed behind their house.

“It sounded like a train coming through the house - lots of noise and lots of commotion,” Briley explained. “It sounded like rocks hitting the north window it was raining so hard.”

Briley said the storm sounded like a tornado and he waited more than 25 minutes in the bathtub. When he got out, he says that's when he realized his home had been damaged

"I looked out the window and saw the porch was blown off and there was water pouring through the ceiling fans. It was horrible,” Briley said.

The storm also took out power lines all along Chicken Fight Road off Highway 7 in Atoka County. Workers with the Southeast Electric Cooperative tell us 14 power poles along the road were knocked down, leaving more than 700 area residents in the dark.

At least two other homes along Chicken Fight Road were damaged and a travel trailer was completely leveled.

Briley admits the experience was scary, but he says he's just thankful no one was hurt.