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<br /> _ ,BY PAUL BROWN:•Ci f-{Li- .. C
<br /> Staif Writer, 1
<br /> ':HILLSBOROUGH-.`f Heavy clouds
<br /> hung over the area,which was filled with a --
<br /> great roar—People scurried. and debris . .
<br /> moved at a,furious pace.
<br /> -. 'ihesceneiva.+DideAV`enue,but the t e.. :•
<br /> was more than 55 hours after a tornado :
<br /> smashed into central Orange County.The :
<br /> roar came from a score of dump trucks,
<br /> backhoes and other pieces of equipment.
<br /> The hurried people included contractors, .
<br /> •
<br /> volunteers and government workers. .
<br /> And the debris was being rakes,, '
<br /> by.front loaders,•,manhandled,:chop -
<br /> sawedr loaded,.trudce. awe .
<br /> Hillsborg ::,i:•,:};1: ,. ,a 1,.•,
<br /> -; Memories o the angry s orm r . ` ;.
<br /> ished a 3i%-mile stretch of homes and '.
<br /> land in Hillsborough and Orange County.'::
<br /> yielded.to the necessity of rebuilding Wed.':;:
<br /> nesdap The-state'decided-against asking
<br /> for federal disaster designation,but it.did
<br /> •ask for special Small Business Adminlstra- ...;:
<br /> tion assistance for Orange and Stokes coun-
<br /> ties.Red Cross coffers will supplement the
<br /> federal aid,said Robert H.Lockwood,ex.
<br /> ecutive director of the organization.
<br /> The two people killed in the storm were :
<br /> .buried Wednesday afternoon. Fourteen
<br /> people were injured in the 2:20 a.m.Mon-
<br /> day tornado, and the more seriously in-
<br /> jured among them remained hospitalized.
<br /> On Dixie Avenue,one of the hardest hit
<br /> areas,members,of the Wickerson family
<br /> cleaned bits of shattered glass from the rear
<br /> of their car.On Monday and Tuesday,vol-
<br /> unteers scoured the yard to remove much ::
<br /> of the debris,which covers most of the de-
<br /> vastated stretch. Wednesday, Marion :::
<br /> Wickerson,the mother of two,sat inside a
<br /> cold,darkened house and mulled the im-
<br /> mediate future.
<br /> The tornado had lifted and then released •
<br /> the roof of the house,rendering it unsafe to
<br /> live in The family has stayed with Widter- : •
<br /> son's sister.The roof must be replaced and
<br /> broken windows repaired.'I hope well be
<br /> able to move back in within two weeks,'
<br /> Wickeison said....'•....:
<br /> County and town officials set the value of'
<br /> structural damage from the storm at$1.95'
<br /> million,but Phillip N."Nick'Waters,the:
<br /> -aid the figure emergency management director,
<br /> hide a gore is higher. That doesn't in-'':i
<br /> Y personal property, utilities.or'..: .
<br /> ,ower lines,'he said. When you add in-.; ''
<br /> hese other things,it's another six to eight\;
<br /> iundred thousand.'
<br /> Help continued to pour in,and sources of
<br /> 'fads.'help began scaling back their assts.
<br /> ance. The Red Cross shelter in '
<br /> Ugh School dosed Wednesday to over-
<br /> fight guests,but will reopen from 8 a.m.to. '
<br /> p.m. through Sunday.
<br /> Local governments decided to turn over •
<br /> fairs during the long holiday weekend to
<br /> ssident.volunteer teams.Residents in the
<br /> fected areas were given placards to plan.
<br /> t windows if they needed help.Volunteers.
<br /> :tut re�u�ter and receive passes to enter the
<br /> reeked neighborhoods.Waters expects an
<br /> \undance of workers,because the county
<br /> s received 'a tremendous number of
<br /> 11s" from people who want to give up
<br /> eir holiday to help the stricken. ;
<br /> Pauline Johnson faces a more serious
<br /> oblem. On Wednesday morning, the
<br /> -year-old Duke University security of-
<br /> :sr stood in the driveway of what used to
<br /> her home.A Dodge Aspen was parked in
<br /> ' driveway, but only cinderblocks and
<br /> oris remained where her trailer once sat.
<br /> ere TORNADO, Papa AS
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