^^^Oops, sorry, meant to say East.

4/16/2011 10:17:37 PM

Quote :

"All the damage is to the EAST of downtown."

It goes all the way to the west edge of downtown proper and quite a ways south, too.

Capital Blvd. and surrounding area is out from Millbrook Rd. all the way to the Beltline.

4/16/2011 10:17:56 PM

Kaplan has power only in spots.

4/16/2011 10:25:46 PM

It randomly rained shingles in the bedford neighborhood off falls of neuse. They just came floating down from a few hundred feet in the sky.

4/16/2011 10:28:09 PM

Quote :

"@WarmTV: URGENT NEED for REGISTERED NURSES at Red Cross Shelter at Southeast Raleigh High School. Call: 919-946-3731"

Not a good sign.

4/16/2011 10:28:55 PM

power was out on capital blvd from about triangle town center to the high way. creepy as hell. and the intersections were pretty much a free for all

4/16/2011 10:53:59 PM

damn


no problems at all out in morrisville

4/16/2011 10:56:13 PM

4/16/2011 11:02:34 PM

My church is on New Hope Rd. near Buffalo Rd.

I heard that it was one of the hardest-hit areas.. lots of members of our congregation have their homes and cars damaged

I didn't know that this tornado was going to be such a big deal!

4/16/2011 11:02:55 PM

Some of the viewer-submitted photos on WRAL are damn scary.

4/16/2011 11:03:08 PM

^^^ I've had my car worked at at that place, and Flash lives like two blocks from there. He's ok though.

[Edited on April 16, 2011 at 11:05 PM. Reason : .]

4/16/2011 11:03:44 PM

here's the WRAL footage of the incoming tornado




[Edited on April 16, 2011 at 11:25 PM. Reason : 2nd video removed as fake]

4/16/2011 11:06:52 PM

^^^^^ two blocks from my house

somehow, the homes on my street are undamaged

4/16/2011 11:07:10 PM

goddamn, I'm sorry your governor is Bev Purdue.


i live in SC now

4/16/2011 11:10:50 PM

apparently some shit got jacked up a mile from my house. glad i decided to make a bunker under teh stairs



[Edited on April 16, 2011 at 11:11 PM. Reason : glad you're alright, b]

4/16/2011 11:11:00 PM

Quote :

"I didn't know that this tornado was going to be such a big deal!"

They have been saying for days now about the very high risk of tornados and damaging storms. Of course, alot of people think it will never happen to them....and brush it off...

What the hell does the governor have to do with weather? Maybe if she blew hard enough the tornado would of go backwards?

Lets not even talk about the past governors of the wonderful state of SC.....

[Edited on April 16, 2011 at 11:14 PM. Reason : w]

4/16/2011 11:11:39 PM

Quote :

"My church is on New Hope Rd. near Buffalo Rd. I heard that it was one of the hardest-hit areas.. lots of members of our congregation have their homes and cars damaged I didn't know that this tornado was going to be such a big deal!"

One of my friends' parents had their house destroyed in the Greensboro/High Point tornado last March. Any tornado is no joke. :/

4/16/2011 11:12:27 PM

to be fair, I typically don't put a lot of faith in 2-3 day weather forecasts

4/16/2011 11:13:12 PM

there's also a house around the corner from me that has an 8" diameter branch going into the house through the roof and out through an exterior wall

as in the wind just tossed it through the goddamn house like a javelin

4/16/2011 11:14:30 PM

^^^^i agree with you but on the same token-we get warnings about this ALL OF THE TIME.

its hard to tell which ones to take seriously anymore. (granted the death toll should have been warning enough).

but how many times have we been warned about a tropical storm or hurricane?
how many times have we actually had serious tornadoes vs tornado watches and even warnings?
and they say this was the worst tornado we've seen since 1980-something...theres no telling how many warnings and watches and all we've had sine then.

dont get me wrong i agree with you totally! but it really i think its sadly easy to see why it wasnt taken quite as seriously as it should have been.

[Edited on April 16, 2011 at 11:16 PM. Reason : damn you guys are quick ]

4/16/2011 11:15:44 PM

as soon as you hear "it demolished a lowe's"

it's probably time to get serious

4/16/2011 11:17:22 PM

goddamn. mothernature doesn't fuck around. that Lowes is fucked up

4/16/2011 11:19:12 PM

^^i'm talking about before that. before the storms even hit.



(when was theat even announced? wasn't it already in raleigh or really really close when we found out?)



[Edited on April 16, 2011 at 11:21 PM. Reason : please be known that i am NOT disagreeing with you, im just trying to reason]

4/16/2011 11:19:23 PM

frankly i didnt know we were at high risk until i stepped outside this morning. the air felt right for the conditions, and then i saw during the hockey game that shit was for reals. i preped an oh-shit-bunker, and got into it when i saw the one cell was headed to my house, and stayed on the internet... and texted peeps to make sure they were alive if i heard things about their area.

i'll admit i over prepared... i grabbed a knife, flashlights, cell phones, my id, cards, and cash... but if my house got jacked up, i'd have been ready to roll.

4/16/2011 11:21:23 PM

Quote :

"here's the WRAL footage of the incoming tornado"

Actually that second video isn't from the same storm. Looks like per the comments it was a video from last year near zebulon. If you remember, I think the Raleigh tornado was quite rain-wrapped and looked a lot more like the WRAL video.

4/16/2011 11:22:00 PM

What's that 2nd video a tornado of? Raleigh?

4/16/2011 11:22:33 PM

^^^lol get you some.

cody and i hopped in the bathroom in the hall.
i ran back out after like 2 minutes and got some grapes and came back.


he was all o.O



i was hungry. and nervous.

[Edited on April 16, 2011 at 11:23 PM. Reason : sdfsd]

4/16/2011 11:23:14 PM

4/16/2011 11:24:42 PM

lol joie i got out to grab my dogs collar, so that i could put it on her, right as the damn thing was near by. because if something happened, i'd hope shed be like lassie.

then i was like dude, you're being stupid

4/16/2011 11:25:04 PM

I lost my power before I even heard about the Lowe's being destroyed!

But yeah, like Joie said.. I didn't take it seriously because we have tornado warnings all the time.

Nothing major happened here in North Raleigh..just heavy wind, rain, and hail.

4/16/2011 11:25:14 PM

Quote :

"Actually that second video isn't from the same storm. Looks like per the comments it was a video from last year near zebulon. If you remember, I think the Raleigh tornado was quite rain-wrapped and looked a lot more like the WRAL video. 4/16/2011 11:22:00 PM guitarguy All American 7730 Posts user info edit post What's that 2nd video a tornado of? Raleigh? "

y'all right. looks like some guy copying old videos and labeling them as today.

4/16/2011 11:25:36 PM

Quote :

"its hard to tell which ones to take seriously anymore. (granted the death toll should have been warning enough)."

Are you serious? You take ALL of them seriously. If nothing, happens then so be it. People take shit for granted way too much. Me included. There is usually a reason why they give these warnings and if it doesn't happen then great, you avoided a potentially harmful situation.

4/16/2011 11:26:58 PM

^no i agree with you hun. read the post.

im just trying to reason why lots of people don't.



[Edited on April 16, 2011 at 11:30 PM. Reason : myself included. i never once said we shouldnt take them seriously. ]

4/16/2011 11:27:34 PM

this was bev perdues katrina

[Edited on April 16, 2011 at 11:31 PM. Reason : i'm sorry, it had to be done.]

4/16/2011 11:31:16 PM

Quote :

"cody and i hopped in the bathroom in the hall. i ran back out after like 2 minutes and got some grapes and came back. he was all o.O i was hungry. and nervous. "

ahahahahahaha. ok not a laughing matter, but this made my day (the snacking part, obvi...not the hiding out in the bathroom)

we got in the frame shop at work, which happens to be quasi underground. i actually was happy i was at work, because that building is pretty rock solid and has been there since like, the 50s. i felt like it was safer than anywhere else i'd be.

[Edited on April 16, 2011 at 11:32 PM. Reason : .]

4/16/2011 11:32:17 PM

Quote :

"BEV PERDUE'S KATRINA"

4/16/2011 11:40:22 PM

4/16/2011 11:42:21 PM

At least four confirmed deaths in Bertie County, with dozens more unconfirmed according to their news station. I don't know why the local stations aren't covering that as a supplement to the local coverage. It sounds like the eastern part of the state was hit pretty hard, but I can't find much information on it.

4/16/2011 11:45:03 PM

outside the viewing area?

4/16/2011 11:46:07 PM

Yeah, I've lived in NC for 7 years total and I've never even heard of Bertie County.

4/16/2011 11:46:30 PM

4/16/2011 11:47:21 PM

its being covered here, where its within the viewing area...
http://www.witn.com/

everything will all shake out tomorrow, and be covered by raleigh stations im sure

[Edited on April 16, 2011 at 11:48 PM. Reason : .]

4/16/2011 11:48:06 PM

jesus, NyM going full retard tonight.

4/16/2011 11:48:06 PM

hes a mets fan, what do you expect

4/16/2011 11:49:00 PM

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bertie_County,_North_Carolina

[Edited on April 16, 2011 at 11:50 PM. Reason : .]

4/16/2011 11:49:57 PM

It's not like I'm insulting people. I take things like this for granted too, as I said. It's absolutely normal, especially for younger people like us.

(and where is Bertie County? I'm dead serious... I've never heard of it. I assume it's nowhere close to Raleigh?)

4/16/2011 11:51:13 PM

click the link, it's not that hard

4/16/2011 11:52:12 PM

Quote :

"after hitting lowes we were driving on the back way to lowes. We was picking up a tree from lowes which we didnt."

4/16/2011 11:53:11 PM

I would have if it wasn't edited with a working link while I was posting...

Anyway, glad no one I know got hurt. We got lucky here considering 3/4 of a mile straight line is the part of S. Saunders that got hit VERY hard.

[Edited on April 16, 2011 at 11:53 PM. Reason : ing]

4/16/2011 11:53:15 PM

Oh, I'm not insinuating it should be covered in detail--just a mention, because their news station sucks. When Windsor was flooded pretty bad a few months back, that got covered pretty intensively, so I just expected a sentence or two on areas outside of the coverage area.

4/16/2011 11:54:57 PM