I drove to Hillsborough yesterday and could not believe what I was seeing it had looked like a tornado came through our area. Only about 3 miles away the damage started! As we were driving Cooper said, "Its a good thing we said our prayers." There were trees down everywhere on the roads, ditches and some on houses and barns. The power lines were down on the road or half way down (a truck would not fit underneath them). Some of the roads were coned off because of the dangerous power lines down or the tree was blocking the road. Some of the poles were snapped in half and the big transponder which would sit on top of the pole was on the ground! I had never seen anything like it before.
While were in town at baseball practice, we heard sirens every so often. As of this morning there were 2,900 in Orange County without power and some 21,000 in Alamance County which is only about 5 miles down the road from us.
After coming home from practice I was sure we were going to have school called off since there was no way a bus could travel down that road I was on. Most of the people I know or had talked to in our school still had no power and were told possibly they would get it back by Wednesday! I only saw one truck out on the way home.
So we are at home enjoying this beautiful 60 some degree sunny weather because of a "snow day". Weird....
Only in North Carolina! You can have an ice storm and the next be 65 and sunny!
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