My daughter is in Charlotte. A lot of rain and wind but no damage .
My Daughter-in-law and Grandson were in the path of a tornado last night. It destroyed their on home at Camp Lejuene.
My 23 month old Grandson is in critical cond.
My Daughter-in-law suffered “minor” injuries.
My Son was in California at the time but was able to fly home this afternoon.
There were several demolished homes and on other critical injury on the base.
Raleigh area had 3 deaths and lots of power outages. Some areas (ours for example) only had high winds, strong rains and short power outages.
Thanks for asking...that’s what sets Freepers apart.
I’ve sent an email to an old friend of mine who lives in the area, and teaches at NCSU. I hope he’s OK.
God bless all the NC FReepers!
My son is at NC State in Raleigh (my wife and I are UNC grads, but that’s another story). He was at his girlfriend’s apartment and they had to go to the laundry room. No damage to her place, and his dorm was undamaged as well. His twin sister is at Appalachian State and did fine. We have some friends who lost a home in Sanford. A Lowes hardware about a half mile from our former Sanford home was leveled. (We listen outside of Winston-Salem now.) Still, lots of devastation in our state.
I am North west of Charlotte, we had some campers trapped by rising river waters but no fatalities, Thank God.. Most of the bad damage was east and north of here.
10 dead in Bertie county though
prayers for the dead and their family's
We had heavy rain, hail and nasty lightning with some wind but the worst passed further south and east of us.
I was in southern Wake County when the storm passed by behind me. My brother and I had been to a birthday party for my grand-nephew. We had a light rain on and off during the morning. I had suspected nothing when I started out from northern Wake County to Willow Springs. My brother and I ended up under a car wash roof to keep what we thought we would get, hail from denting our vehicles. It rained hard, so hard that it was almost a white out. We sat under the roof of the car wash watching the Fuquay-Varina police car go round and round as the traffic lights didn’t work at intersection that time.
The rain began to lessen and my brother was anxious to find out about his home. His last words to me before we parted were, “Don’t be surprise if you arrive home and the house is gone.” He had to find other ways to go home because the tornado touched down close to his home outside of Rolesville and the roads were fallen trees or electric lines. I took another route home and had no problem getting there. One scary afternoon that I hope that will never to be repeated again in my lifetime!
All well here. Was driving west yesterday and hit the squall line in Statesville a couple of hours before it started spitting out tornadoes back to the east. Weirdest thing about it was it went from blinding rain and wind to blue sky and clear in about 2 minutes.
Alive and well in Raleigh... well Cary, but close enough.
We are in Hickory. No tornadoes that I am aware of, but we had a very large poplar come down across our street just two houses over. The new homeowner moved in about two years ago and cut about half the trees on his lot. Without the shelter of the grove, this big one came down in yesterday’s strong winds.
No one hurt!
Thank you all so much for your prayers. Really, it means alot to us right now.
I’ll keep you all posted.
Things are going incredibly well for my Grandson who was critically injured when a tornado demolished my Son's home on Camp Lejuene.
He is still listed as critical but stable. His Mom and Dad are doing well. They have been by his side and are happy (amazed) by his progress.
Here is an article with the latest update: