- Title: Tornado spun off by Dorian peels away roofs, shutters windows in North Carolina
- Date: 6th September 2019
- Summary: CAROLINA SHORES, NORTH CAROLINA, UNITED STATES (SEPTEMBER 6, 2019) (REUTERS) CAROLINA SHORES RESIDENT CAROLINE LEFTWICH WHOSE HOUSE WAS DAMAGED BY A TORNADO SPUN OFF BY DORIAN AND WHO THREE MONTHS AGO MOVED OUT OF WILMINGTON, NORTH CAROLINA, AFTER THEIR PROPERTY SUSTAINED DAMAGE DURING LAST YEAR'S STORM FLORENCE, SHOWING DAMAGE SHUTTERED WINDOW LEFTWICH POINTING AT PEELED AWAY ROOF (SOUNDBITE) (English) CAROLINA SHORES RESIDENT CAROLINE LEFTWICH, SAYING: "We kept hearing a noise that sounded like a truck and then about three minutes later we just heard a boom and jumped out, we were in bed, jumped up out of bed and our windows had blown out" LEFTWICH REFLECTED ON SHUTTERED WINDOW / SHUTTERED WINDOW (SOUNDBITE) (English) CAROLINA SHORES RESIDENT CAROLINE LEFTWICH, SAYING: "No, I'm not really worried about hurricanes. But, I do worry now about tornadoes. I mean everybody around here says they've never seen this before." PEELED AWAY ROOF LINE OF HOUSES WITH PEELED AWAY ROOFS VARIOUS, MAN GETTING THINGS FROM TRUNK OF VEHICLE PARKED BETWEEN DAMAGED HOUSES VARIOUS, PEELED AWAY ROOFS VARIOUS, DEBRIS OUTSIDE HOUSE VARIOUS, FAMILY OUTSIDE HOUSE IN GROUP WITH STAFF ASSESSING DAMAGE VARIOUS, DAMAGED HOUSE, WINDOWS MAN CARRYING DEBRIS ACROSS LAWN
- Embargoed: 20th September 2019 19:41
- Keywords: Hurricane Dorian tornado storm damage South Carolina
- Location: CAROLINA SHORES, NORTH CAROLINA, UNITED STATES
- City: CAROLINA SHORES, NORTH CAROLINA, UNITED STATES
- Country: USA
- Topics: Disaster/Accidents,Wind/Hurricane/Typhoons/Tornadoes
- Reuters ID: LVA001AVIUATJ
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- Story Text:A tornado spun off by Hurricane Dorian tore through the Carolina Shores community in North Carolina peeling away roofs and shuttering windows.
Carolina Shores resident Caroline Leftwich on Friday (September 6) assessed damaged to her house and recalled how the noise made them jump out of bed.
The howling west flank of Dorian has soaked the Carolinas since early Thursday, flooding coastal towns, whipping up more than a dozen tornadoes and cutting power to hundreds of thousands of people.
Dorian was expected to pick up speed from its 14 mph (22 kph) crawl on Friday, and life-threatening storm surges and dangerous winds remain a threat for much of the area, the National Hurricane Center said.
The damage appeared to be far less severe than in the Bahamas, where at least 70,000 people are in need of immediate humanitarian relief after Dorian became the most damaging storm ever to hit the island nation.
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