as that severe weather rolled over sayre societia county, it -- sarasota county, it caused extremely damage at a shopping plaza. >> reporter: crews have been spending much of the evening gathering this pile of aluminum. it had been part of the roofing >> reporter: from gheel 8 you could see the destruction of the roof at the ark plaza in venice. >> we heard a slight rumble then it felt like the tile lifted. and we could hear the roof peeling back. i saw the roof covering all the vehicles in the back. >> reporter: straight line winds caused this extensive businesses. >> hearing the roof fall off, some people were screaming tornado and is stuff like that. and we looked out the back door, and it was nothing but aluminum roofing. >> reporter: 20 dogs and six salon. the owner is praising the quick work of the firefighters. >> they ran in, they helped us leash the dogs and is bring safety. we were just blessed. >> reporter: for the people who work in this plaza there were some scary moments they >> we kind of huddled together and made sure everybody was all right, and prayed. and everybody