Tree Smashed Hole In Students Rental Home in Oxford, Mississippi A Birmingham, Alabama helicopter pilot flew to Oxford, Mississippi to get three University of Mississippi students out of a rental home damaged by an ice storm. David Upton, owner of CraneWorks, a heavy equipment rental company in Birmingham, and a helicopter pilot, had a friend ask for help for his daughter and her two roommates after Oxford, Mississippi was left without power in an ice storm. With the airport closed the college students were stranded in Oxford. A tree fell on their rental house and left a hole in the roof in subzero weather with no power. “They hitchhiked two rides because they were a 20-minute ride to the airport in 10-degree weather.
