Скачать или смотреть Tornadoes spawned by Tropical Storm Debby rip through North Carolina

(8 Aug 2024)
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Lucama, North Carolina - 8 August 2024
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1. Drone footage of damage to Springfield Middle School in Lucama
2. Wide of tree down in front of house
3. Tight on siding damage to house
4. SOUNDBITE (English) Genesis Cooper, Lucama resident:
"This morning about 2:30 or so when we got the first alert and we went into ... the wife came got everybody said, 'Grab your pillows and blankets and let's get into this bathroom.' So we went into the bathroom, grabbed a mattress, brought it in there with us, and we went there maybe 10 minutes or so and just hear what sounded like thunder coming through the house."
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5. Drone footage of damage to Springfield Middle School in Lucama
6. SOUNDBITE (English) Genesis Cooper, Lucama resident:
"We imagine this is where it came from because that's where the most damage is on the inside. His door was blown off. Blown off the hinges. And it's into the living room."
7. Genesis Cooper walking around his house
8. SOUNDBITE (English) Genesis Cooper, Lucama resident, talking to a neighbor:
"He had a punching bag in there full of sand. You know, one of the big punching bag. It blew it through his room, knocked the door out into the living room. So all that's laying in the living room floor."
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9. Various drone footage of damage to Springfield Middle School in Lucama
STORYLINE:
Tornadoes spawned by Tropical Storm Debby leveled homes, damaged a school and killed one person early Thursday, as the system dropped heavy rain and flooded communities across North and South Carolina.
The tornado devastated Genesis Cooper’s home in Lucama, North Carolina, a small town about 40 miles (64 kilometers) east of Raleigh.
The 51-year-old, his wife and their 20-year-old son huddled in the home’s middle bathroom with blankets.
"So we went into the bathroom, grabbed a mattress, brought it in there with us, and we went there maybe 10 minutes or so and just hear what sounded like thunder coming through the house," said Cooper.
Cooper said the tornado was so intense, the wind gusts dragged a large punching bag out of his son’s bedroom and flung it into the living room, knocking his son’s door off the hinges.
The superintendent of Wilson County Schools confirmed damage at Springfield Middle School, where sections of the walls and roof of the 6th and 7th grade halls are gone or compromised.

AP Video shot by Allen Breed

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