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jackleg
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i don't remember hearing anything on the news about this, the anniversary was a few weeks ago. dont yell at me please

1988 doesn't seem like a long time ago to me. i bet lots of you weren't even born then. but i remember this thing so vividly because it happened on my first day of school after we moved to raleigh. when i was like 10. ha ha



12/27/2008 7:06:12 AM

LivinProof78
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I remember that...we had been shopping at thd smithfield outlets that day. It completely flattened that Kmart

12/27/2008 7:15:44 AM

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I remember this. We lived about 5 minutes from Umstead and I remember waking up rolling out of bed and running to my parents room, I was 6 at the time. Scary shit.

12/27/2008 7:24:20 AM

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i live less than a mile from newton/six forks intersection. scary shit. my house was here then but id didnt own it

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12/27/2008 7:37:02 AM

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12/27/2008 7:46:13 AM

dustm
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Yep. I lived on Longstreet. I slept through it but the next day we went and checked out the damage

12/27/2008 8:09:39 AM

Mr Grace
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we lived off lynn rd./ lead mine.


had a toilet tank lid in our yard, but thats it.

my brother was friends with the kid that died in greystone, and the girl who died was in my class at lynn rd. elementary

my parents didnt even wake us up to go down stairs

12/27/2008 8:17:49 AM

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I remember this. Completely out of the blue considering the time of the year. The last time I went hiking through Umstead, you could still see remnants of the damage (granted that was about 8 years ago).



Oh and . . .



Bob DeBardelaben

12/27/2008 8:44:43 AM

dweedle
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i have a lot of dreams where i am involved in a tornado

im wondering if there's some significance

12/27/2008 8:47:02 AM

volex
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we lived right near westwood in that video at the time

12/27/2008 9:28:26 AM

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Wow...it totally hit our current house. Crazy.

And the guy with the cut nose, no shirt and gorilla chest--totally hot LOL

and I'm serious

12/27/2008 9:45:37 AM

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I lived in the neighborhood between six forks n falls of neuse. I was in first grade at the time. that tornado went right down our street. the house across from mine was flattened and most of our neighbors had serious damage. our house had the chimney fall down and a big tree crush our roof. i remember waking up to the sound of what sounded like an off balance washing machine. my mom ran in and we all went downstairs. I will never forget all our neighbors coming into our house because it was the only one left in decent condition. seeing the damage the next morning was very surreal for a 7 year old. and i remember the odor of pine was overwhelming. i had nightmares for a long time after that day. i specifically remember the evening before the tornado, the sky was a really weird yellow color....anyone else remember that?

12/27/2008 9:50:40 AM

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I was here, but too young to remember it. Thankfully I didn't live near the path - I was up on the North end of Leesville Rd. It destroyed my daycare, though.

12/27/2008 10:08:03 AM

Mulva
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Quote :
"FLATTENED

THAT

KMART"

12/27/2008 10:13:42 AM

Mr Grace
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^^some friends and i were walking home from the basketball courts at lynn rd. and we commented on it, but it was red.

we actually mentioned tornadoes because of it, not that we knew what the fuck we were talking about.


you could definitely feel something in the air 7-8 hours before anything actually happened

12/27/2008 10:23:16 AM

LimpyNuts
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I lived in Apex at the time, but I vaguely remember that storm and that news report. I was only 3 then.

12/27/2008 10:26:38 AM

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I didn't grow up in Raleigh, but as a kid, I was PETRIFIED of hurricanes and tornadoes. I was 7 then, but definitely remember my parents telling me that a huge tornado hit Raleigh the night before. It was significant at the time because we, too, were apparently under a tornado watch all night, and I was scared as shit. (we lived in Camden County, in the NE part of the state, just south of where that cell ended up in SE VA).

the N&O actually did a piece on it last month, w/ some pics:

http://blogs.newsobserver.com/multi/1988-n-raleigh-tornado

12/27/2008 10:38:55 AM

darscuzlo
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I was living in Village of Pickwick. Blew out all my windows and lifted the roof but did not take it away. Other units lost their second floor. It was really fucking scary and walking around looking for dead or injured with only a flashlight and nothing else because of the widespread power outage was pretty intense. You would hear voices, shine your light up and people would be digging themselves out of was was their second floor.

12/27/2008 11:21:20 AM

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"we lived off lynn rd./ lead mine.


had a toilet tank lid in our yard, but thats it.

my brother was friends with the kid that died in greystone, and the girl who died was in my class at lynn rd. elementary

my parents didnt even wake us up to go down stairs"


dang y0, we lived like down the street.

mine valley rd. (also went to lynn rd till like 2nd grade).

i remember it, hearing traines. twas bit scarry, but we slept through it. woke up the next morning and acted as if nothing happened.

12/27/2008 11:28:03 AM

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"some friends and i were walking home from the basketball courts at lynn rd. and we commented on it, but it was red. we actually mentioned tornadoes because of it, not that we knew what the fuck we were talking about. you could definitely feel something in the air 7-8 hours before anything actually happened"


yeah i know exactly what you mean. I recall the sky having a yellow tint but it could have also been red. but i do remember feeling something eerie in the air that evening. it was a very ominous feeling. i was seven but still remember it. I have been through a second tornado since then, in 1999, and there was the same ominous feeling in the sky that day too....except that time the sky went from overcast to solid black in a matter of minutes.

12/27/2008 11:51:06 AM

cddweller
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Where was the 99 twister?

12/27/2008 11:53:16 AM

Republican18
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july 4, 1999 boundary waters northern minnesota

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boundary_Waters-Canadian_Derecho

they are calling it a derecho, we were out camping and didnt know what the fuck it was but it was a crazy violent storm

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12/27/2008 11:54:58 AM

thumper
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I remember it vividly. I was living in Knightdale with my mom, and I remember being all freaked out because the tornado touched down not 3 miles from my dad's house. I saw this on WRAL several weeks ago. But then again, I check that website every day during the week while I'm at work, so I pretty much see it all.

12/27/2008 11:57:02 AM

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at first i was like damn, i was being born in GA when a bunch of people died. but then i realized today wasnt the anniversary.

12/27/2008 12:48:19 PM

saps852
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happy birthday slut

12/27/2008 12:48:54 PM

dmann
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I was going to Sanderson High at the time. Lots of us had to deal with damage and one of my classmates little brother was one of the children killed.

I remember some seriously messed up houses down Morning Dove Rd. One looked like it was picked up and just dropped on its back. Everything was relatively intact but it was just pushed back 90 degrees. At the intersection of Sawmill Road and the greenway trail the trees looked like a pile of toothpicks.

Some good did come out of it, one of my friends who lived in the townhouses across from Pleasant Valley scored a Nintendo in his yard from the K-Mart

12/27/2008 8:42:06 PM

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I worked at Crabtree Valley at that time. I went to the shopping center with my camera, but it was being used as a Police command post, and no one else was being allowed in. I went to the apartment complex behind the center and took photos with a long lens of the back of the Kmart as well as other devastation in the apartment complex.

12/27/2008 9:16:03 PM

xplosivo
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I was living in Wilson at the time and used to leave my radio on all night when I went to bed. I distinctly remember waking up about 20 minutes or so after they hit and hearing the DJ on WRDU 106.1 (who was actually live at that time of night back then) saying that a large tornado had torn through Raleigh and that he was trying to get further information. He then played U2 doing Helter Skelter from Rattle and Hum.

To this day, that song reminds me of that night.

12/28/2008 12:18:41 AM

Woodfoot
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"U2 doing Helter Skelter from Rattle and Hum. "


this is something i would like to learn more about

to the google!

12/28/2008 12:20:18 AM

Smath74
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i remember that I was out of town that night... i was in Richmond Va visiting my aunt with my dad, and for some reason (car trouble?) we stayed there an extra night. The sky in richmond actually looked weird too, and I remember playing with my cousins (I was 8) and we played some tornado game because i thought it was tornado weather.

i was scared shitless the next morning because my aunt told me there was a tornado in raleigh, and i couldn't get through to my mom at first. I finally did and she was fine.

12/28/2008 12:27:46 AM

Malagoat
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Adele Arakawa used to be a newscaster in Raleigh? She's on KUSA in Denver now, ha.

12/28/2008 12:28:52 AM

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