Agenda - 08-04-1993 - VII-C - Laserfiche WebLink

Browse Search

n,� father - _ wind tore Y The � �� Survivor says . from mV arms ; ,J� timed its course,snapping oaks and -: r, k r 1 (,1y - the trees to little more than demolishing a pig sty• Bey ANNE BLYTHE `/ �\ kindling• Atop a knoll beyond the embank- a half a mile away, 4' and LEE\NEISBECKER�_ Along,the road,h rnent,Kevin TalUert heard it coming. y Joseph Terrell lay sleeping in his mo- "I had my mother and my father on ' Staff Writers the floor trying to get them under the The tornado bile home. ear HILLSBOROUGH— It w t knnwn whether the 53 y bed,"said the 2.6-year-old Chapel Hill that reached down from a dark angry resident."But it hitbefore we ma de it. gPaying an ar- With all my strength I tried to hold .' doud_and sprang o life along carved bed Sunday company h g Y I'to both of them. I held onto n.y banks of the E carved titular heed to the tornado warnings onto b wounds deeper than its short p mother,but the wind tore my father r 5 Spinning counterdodcwiseatmore broadcast earlier whether from my arms." u• i f than 170 mph and moving to the It isn tknown the pounding,rd the Only two days before,oTalbert oE the roachin northeast,the deadly twister covered electrical claps,the pounding hail or hel ed his father,Larry, 'r What is certain,though,is that the c a quarter of the distance most the omotive-like roar app he Occoneechee Steak House i Hill- only 9 tornadoes travel before it vaulted sky- mobile home was blown to bits,t sborough,and mother,Sharon, ward to blow itself apart' insulation from its walls into their new home* y Eight minutes and 4 miles on the yellow As the tornado hit and the house A 1 it ground —but the swath of death, draped over chewed tree limbs like exploded all around them,the young devastation the fatal force Spanish moss- Terrell' body Talbert desperately tried to find his `.' cut and roe Rescuers T cut cant measured,not in property ed in a blanket,20 feet away father in the rubble. ; the people it battered wrapp lost, but in P P "He was there on the floor,covered from where the mobile home once along the way. existed.. with debris,a dresser drawer and a From the river the tor- . over the red clay bank tree that had crashed through,'ea se e 'MN At about 220 a.m.Monday. •{fie 20-foot-high embankment just said."I couldn"t move A3 nado whipped through the pine fore- beyond Terrell's house offerri c°on See FA7HEg, Page twist 'structfon to the tornado, sts on either side of U.S.70,about a mile due west of Hillsborough,