Reuters: Tornado kills five in North Carolina: report

[Eugene]

Tornado kills five in North Carolina: report
Thu Nov 16, 2006 10:27am ET

MIAMI (Reuters) - A tornado ripped through a North Carolina trailer park
Thursday, killing at least five people and tearing homes off their foundations,
local media reported.

Four children and two adults were injured, some critically, when the twister
splintered the mobile homes just west of the town of Riegelwood, North
Carolina, WECT6 television in Wilmington reported on its Web site.

Columbus County Sheriff Chris Batten told the station the five people died
when five or six homes were uprooted. Dogs were searching the area for
missing people. Batten could not immediately be reached.

Lt. Everett Clendenin of the North Carolina Highway Patrol told CNN people
may have been thrown from their shredded homes into neighboring woods.

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Full article: http://today.reuters.com/news/articlenews.aspx?type=domesticNews&storyID=2006-11-16T152656Z_01_N16212740_RTRUKOC_0_US-WEATHER-TORNADO.xml

[Frustratedlady]

1. I just received a CBS Breaking News that stated nine deaths.

Isn't it kind of late in the year for those? Tragic

Those children at the daycare center/skating rink were certainly lucky.

[Lars39]

2. They occur year-round.

:(

[nealmhughes]

4. In the Southeastern U.S. there are two tornado seasons: primary in the spring

and secondary in the fall. The secondary season is normally more scattered in terms of occurance, but the storms trend towards more distructive.

Some of the most disastrous storms happened in Alabama in November and December. The Airport Road Tornado in Huntsville 19 years ago yesterday which happened during rush hour going-home traffic and killed 21. My ex-brother-in-law missed it by 5 mins.

On 17 December 2000, the day started out damp and cool. I was giving HY-101 finals that day and walked to campus wearing a fleece-lined nylon bomber jacket, a tee shirt and a flannel shirt and a pair of hiking boots. The exam began at 9 am and ended at 11 am. I had the scantron portion turned into the grading center and my essays in hand by noon. I walked home and the sun was out. I was down to the just the shirt and tee shirt by one block. By the time I got home, two blocks later, I prepared the basement and put out the candles and battery-powered radio and got the chairs for my "soon to be guests" readied.

Soon all windows were open, the TV was on as tornados were spreding from Mississippi towards Tuscaloosa and I had on shorts and just a tee shirt.
By 1 pm, the sirens were sounding. If I am not mistaken, one tore up River Road between downtown Tuscaloosa and the UA campus and I lived on Riverside Road. The radio was reporting that it was headed for the city, and I replied from the basement, looks like it is IN the city...
But noone was hurt there. A trailer park and a motel were hit outside the city and 17 were killed...

[Lars39]

5. I get nervous any time there is a warm spell in Nov. and Dec.

[Virginia Dare]

3. We're under a tornado watch here in D.C.

the weather is unusually warm today, and there are some ugly looking clouds blowing over. Not a good sign.

Here's hoping for no more deaths or injuries from this system, and thoughts go out to those in North Carolina.