Severe storm causes downed limbs and minor property damage, Johnston County NC
HurricaneA severe thunderstorm caused high winds that brought down tree limbs and debris on roads near Allens Crossroads Rd. Minor property damage was reported including bent and broken antennas, damaged utility poles, and fallen trees in yards.
Audio|Source: Johnston Amateur Radio Society 147.27 Repeater
03:51
Transcript:
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Yeah, hey (name withheld), I just have gotten back here, lightning eased off enough I felt comfortable, turning my stuff back on. So I got in there and checked into Virginia phone there with (name withheld) and got this on. I was real blessed in a lot of ways we had, one of the roughest storms I've seen here since.
00:22
Maybe since the tornado back in 2011,
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it was something else. And (name withheld) and I got caught right in a minute. I got caught with my pants down.
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We were out of alley.
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I mean, it was just as pretty as you've ever seen. We drove over to the crossroads to the little Italian restaurant over there, a pizza place.
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And we're eating in the upper, and it got darker and darker and darker. But it still wasn't doing anything, really.
00:51
And we finished up and left there and I drove around by the shop.
00:56
I was going to show (name withheld) what (name withheld) had been working on out front a lot. He was cleaning up out there and putting Rock out. Something she's been wanting to see.
01:06
Done and we finally got it started out in front of the shop.
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But...
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We stopped looking at a minute. It was getting rougher and rougher, and the wind was kicking up, and all of a sudden that thing hit,
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and we found ourselves going in first gear on that beetle.
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I couldn't see good enough to get it out of anything. The wind was blowing so hard, it was raining so hard, you could not see.
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But just a few feet, I could just follow the line in the road.
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You know, it's one of those situations, well, do I stop and sit here and let somebody rear in me or try to go?
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So I just,
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you know, life were on, so I just crept along in first gear.
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And we got ready to make our turn onto Allen's Crossroads Road to come towards the house. Well, we only had a mile and a half to go.
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So we're running like 10, 15 miles and I turned onto that road. while,
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tree limbs down everywhere. We just had a zigzag all around them. There was nothing to completely block the road, but we were in an opposite lane, back and forth, going through tree limbs and debris.
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Kind of had to run over. I was afraid I was going to tear something out from underneath my car.
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And I got antenna damage everywhere.
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My stacked...
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My stacked 5 eighth wave, brand new two meter antennas I've been using that when I'm out in the carport. Love it as death, man, that thing performs.
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It was laying in the backyard all bent up.
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My doublet had pulled loose from the post, and it's still in the air, but it's poles all kicked over.
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And the work I did last weekend getting my all center fed back up high, like it ought to be one leg of that laying in the trees because it broke a rope.
03:06
Tower did okay.
03:08
And (name withheld) and (name withheld) both lost trees in a yard.
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Well, (name withheld) lost part of a tree where it forked and split it.
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And (name withheld) lost a whole one in his front yard.
03:21
I mean, that was...
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We really got nailed over here.
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And just the reason I said I got a call with my pants down, all my radios were plugged in and owned.
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And that was lying and popping everywhere. So I was just nervous as I could be until it finally.
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When I got home, I ran in here and turned them off. But I'm not putting my hands.
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At least I've got insurance.
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I'm not putting my hands and unscrewing coaxes with that going on. I did turn them off, which...
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Allens Crossroads Rd, North Carolina
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