My brother works at a golf course in Wake Forest. Today he found a bank statement from July 1994 that belonged to a family in Sanford. His boss found a copy of an invoice from a restaurant in Sanford as well. Has anyone found anything that was displaced a long way?

4/19/2011 10:36:07 PM

k

4/19/2011 10:36:36 PM

he found a k

4/19/2011 10:37:14 PM

Found an egg all the way from the tww servers

4/19/2011 10:38:51 PM

^sick

4/19/2011 10:40:50 PM

I found a thong in my backyard. Not sure if it was from a tornado or from something else but....

I'm fucking with ya. I'm not even in NC at the moment.

4/19/2011 10:41:04 PM

Best thing we saw was an intertube.

Just in the middle of nowhere.

4/19/2011 10:41:46 PM

guy at work was biking or something and came across a piece of a big ford sign (probably for a dealership) in the middle of nowhere

4/19/2011 10:42:18 PM

Found a few weird things in Apex. A few roof shingles, a WaWa cup (do we even have Wawa in NC?) and an empty DVD box of "A River Runs Through It."

4/19/2011 10:42:49 PM

why all you people hanging out in the middle of nowhere? seems like a pretty popular place.

you people?

4/19/2011 10:43:08 PM

had half a shingle and a tuft of insulation... not shit.

4/19/2011 10:43:19 PM

it boggles my mind to think that some debris traveled 60 + miles

4/19/2011 10:43:59 PM

i've read stories where debris has been found in different states from tornadoes

4/19/2011 10:44:34 PM

4/19/2011 10:45:17 PM

^^yeah, border cities......

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4/19/2011 10:46:11 PM

^^ hahah

4/19/2011 11:02:39 PM

another person I know who lives near Dunn saw a flying cow

4/19/2011 11:25:26 PM

A massive tornado destroyed parts of Enterprise, AL (beside Ft Rucker) a few years back.

We will be miles out in the middle of nowhere in the woods find bath tubs, refridgerators, cars, walls, parts of rooms with 2 or 3 walls still connected. The highschool got destoryed so people have reported lockers, desks and such all across the area.

Even years later we still pause and think holy shit that takes alot of power.

4/19/2011 11:26:29 PM

my friends live over by cary high. they went out in the backyard sunday morning to find a door sitting in the top of a tall tree in their backyard.

pic is hosted on facebook, so it might not work...

4/19/2011 11:32:05 PM

thats pretty cool

4/19/2011 11:34:32 PM

crazy! (I see it)

4/19/2011 11:35:07 PM

I like that tree and door pic

4/19/2011 11:36:34 PM

i should check my trees

4/19/2011 11:36:48 PM

when you see it, you'll shit bricks

4/19/2011 11:37:43 PM

that pic is insane

4/19/2011 11:37:53 PM

a coworker of mine found mail from Sanford in his yard (he lives an hour and a half away from Sanford)

4/19/2011 11:41:28 PM

The tornado i talked about above killed 8 HS Students in 2007, the community here still hasnt fully recovered.

4/19/2011 11:47:04 PM

I've seen bits of yellow insulation everywhere. I bet it is all from that Lowes that got hit in Sanford

4/19/2011 11:49:51 PM

i found a cat

4/19/2011 11:51:03 PM

or the trailer parks

4/20/2011 12:08:31 AM

or any of the houses...

4/20/2011 12:11:59 AM

dog walked in with...

4/20/2011 12:15:01 AM

talk about a ClassicMixup!

4/20/2011 12:15:54 AM

^^was only a matter of time for that joke.

[Edited on April 20, 2011 at 12:16 AM. Reason : bzzz]

4/20/2011 12:16:00 AM

this is a cool thread

LOVE the door in the tree!

4/20/2011 12:16:50 AM

An F3 tornado hit my hometown of Stoneville, NC back in 1998 and completely destroyed one of the family businesses. In doing so, it sucked up some cancelled checks that were in the storage loft.

A few days later we received a call from someone in Lynchburg, VA, all that we dumped trash in their yard. Some of the cancelled checks ended up 100 miles away in this dude's backyard. He changed his tone when we told him a tornado had just rolled through.

4/20/2011 1:24:24 AM

i wonder how bad this problem is out in the mid west. i guess there's not a whole lot of stuff to hit at times, but if you're a farmer and you have have like a school desk that gets caught in your combine... i'd be pissssed

4/20/2011 1:26:53 AM

bump for the daytime people

4/20/2011 9:38:49 AM

This thread got me an egg

and

Quote :

"Today he found a bank statement from July 1994"

holy shit! I had just turned 12! Are we supposed to hold on to bank statements that long?

4/20/2011 9:41:25 AM

he shredded it once he got back to his office, but it said they had $25k in savings in 1994.

4/20/2011 10:20:02 AM

Quote :

"i wonder how bad this problem is out in the mid west. i guess there's not a whole lot of stuff to hit at times, but if you're a farmer and you have have like a school desk that gets caught in your combine... i'd be pissssed"

metal in combines has been an issue from the beginning, these days most have a metal detector that shuts the implement down immedately so the operator can clear the metal out before it gets processed.

4/20/2011 10:24:01 AM

http://www.wral.com/weather/story/9474466/

Quote :

" Sanford, N.C. — One victim on Saturday's storms was reunited Wednesday with a piece of her past. Beth Pope's home in Sanford was left splintered by the tornado that hopscotched its way from Sanford through Raleigh. She and her husband escaped without injury, but their son remained in UNC Hospitals on Wednesday with a punctured lung. "We've basically lost everything we had," Pope said. "I could feel we were being lifted up. I just started screaming. It's a miracle that we're still here." Some of her memories also survived unscathed. The tornado carried her 1978 Lee County High School yearbook about 30 miles to Cary, where SAS employees clearing storm debris found it on the software developer's campus on Monday. SAS posted pictures from the yearbook to the employee website, and Shannon Heath then went looking for the book's owner. Using the name "Beth Morgan" found in the book's autograph section, she posted information on her Facebook page. Someone else took the information and posted it to a Facebook page set up for storm victims in Sanford. "We just really wanted to get it to her, because in times like these, you hold onto whatever you can," Heath said. Within 12 hours, someone linked the yearbook to Pope. WRAL News returned the yearbook to her on Wednesday. "I am surprised it's still intact," she said, adding that the book and the memories it contains have never been more important. "It definitely does mean a lot to me that somebody cared enough to try to contact me and try to give me some of my memories back," she said. "It's just a part of my life.""

4/21/2011 10:42:32 AM

That's a pretty heavy item to have traveled that far. That thing probably flew over my house... I live directly in the path between Sanford and SAS.

4/22/2011 4:13:57 AM

My brother who lives near me in Wake Forest found a single page ripped out of the bible sitting on the ground near a bunch of insulation and wood paneling.

4/22/2011 11:44:05 AM

the first couple days I drove to work in Sanford after the storm there was lots of debris along US1. mostly it was insulation chunks, but there was some siding in trees and other stuff like that. kind of eerie.

[Edited on April 22, 2011 at 11:49 AM. Reason : k]

4/22/2011 11:48:48 AM