High Winds

Thursday, March 13, 2014 - Last night a quick-moving storm came through and toppled trees and sent power outages soaring.  The airport recorded a wind gust of 61 mph.  Duke Energy had 350 customers still without power from the Friday ice storm and by 9:30pm last night their number had gone up to 9,700 people without power.  At the bus stop this morning we learned that our neighbor 3 houses down had a huge tree fall our their house.  It hit on top of their daughter's bedroom and cracked all 4 walls and hallway.  That could have happened to any of us.  There are so many tall trees around.  So thankful no one was hurt.  The neighbor across the street could hear the crack and crunch when it happened.  The family inside the damaged house could feel the whole house shake.