Survivors go through N.C. tornado rubble
“RIEGELWOOD, N.C. – Survivors picked through the rubble of their flattened homes Friday after a tornado killed eight people in this riverside town, the area hardest hit by a devastating storm system that later swept through the Northeast.
Gov. Mike Easley toured the devastated area as disaster assessment teams surveyed what was left of a mobile home park and several brick homes that were flattened by the storm.
More than half of the 20 people injured when the tornado struck Riegelwood remained hospitalized Friday, including four children Easley said were in “very, very critical condition.”
Having experienced two tornados over the past 20 years, I have an idea of what these people are going through. It’s going to be a long time before they will feel comfortable when a storm hits. I don’t think that there’s anything more frightening.
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