Crazy tornado/microburst in alamance county

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Anyone else get hit HARD by a storm yesterday evening around 5:00?? I was at home with my mother and 4 month old nephew when the wind started picking up like hell! I was outside with my pup watching the trees sway when i heard what sounded like a shotgun going off in the trunk of a tree. After seeing it sway more and more i watched it come down, hard! I recently built a 30 x 60 back porch with half of it covered and the tree landed right on the covered half. I ran inside with Tank (the pup) and made mom and Brady (nephew) go into the downstairs bath tub then i ran back to the back door to check out the storm (very dumb decision). While standing at the back door of my sun room, another BIG oak comes slamming through 3 windows of the room I was in.
If you have ever had something like that happen to you then you know the feeling. It is indescribable! Glass shattered everywhere! Long story short, 3 trees on the house, and about 4 more down in the yard. If you drive within a half mile of my house in any direction it looks unharmed. That's why i'm leaning towards thinking this had to be a tornado!

Pics to come shortly. Hope anyone who was in this things path is ok! As we are.
 
Tree on the covered deck.
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Back yard, Pics do not do justice!
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After boarding up the hole in the sun room.
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Sorry such bad pics, camera was ruined in the sun room..
 
Glad you were alright.
Weather alert radio was going crazy about then (so I turned it off :D)
but it was chiming alamance warnings non stop.



So you are all over mud lately, you going to buy another one soon? :D
 
Haha, man i have my spurts. Ive been working so much lately and looking at foreclosed houses. So I have a dilema there. I'm still beyond crazy about them though. It wont be long. I need to at least meet more of you guys, even if I am in my P.O.S bronco... haha
 
Damn that is some scary stuff! Be glad everyone is safe!
 
It was a strange one alright. News2 had predicted sunny skies and no precip for Monday:o. I was driving down S. Church St. and all of a sudden the bottom just fell out of the sky. Straight line winds had the stop lights laying flat out and then the hail came. Traffic was pretty much at a crawl; 10 minutes later the sun was back out. Glad no one was hurt at your place. Where in the county are you? Ed
 
I'm in graham, Darrell drive off rockwood. If you saw the news, the worst happened here, In a 1 mile radius. It was easily the scariest thing Ive been through.
 
I know that area well. Spent all my formative years around there (a looooong time ago :D). Grew up on Blair St. (right behind the Gas House off Rogers Rd.). Mom still lived there until a year ago when we moved her closer to us in Elon. We'll have to meet up sometime. Ed
 
Yeah definatly.. Good ol gas house, Cheap gad and dip.. haha.

What kinda rig ya got?
 
Good to see you are ok

On the upside at least you have good taste in football teams :D
 
haha, born in boston! Go Sox!
 

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