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<br /> Homes Businesses Persons • Damage$ t n .
<br /> County Damaged Destroyed Damaced Desuoved Iniured Dead sumo a ...
<br /> IBertie . 18 0 0 0 0 0 $159,250 �A
<br /> Union • 0 0 0 0 - 0 '2 D
<br /> Iredell 33 3. 0 0 0 0 . 357,500 r c.::-^ ,•;
<br /> Orange 109 53 1 1 10 2 1,953,000 _
<br /> Harnett:: - •23::. • _ 5 - .:'.<r 0 5 . 10 •_-:. 0 ,952,000 : ,,
<br /> 1. Johnston 24 18 1 1 12 0"---" 1,982,260 t•Wilson 1 ' 1 0 0 0 0 100,000 t a r
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<br /> 0.,_.; 189,500 r
<br /> Chowan�_-'- 1 0': 0 _..;r-0 • - 0 0:. ; 8,000 ` _. 'x'.-
<br /> Pasquotank 42: - •3 • 0 ':•`t:0 : 21 0 958,700 r `-
<br /> Cleveland 10• 1 _ .0 . ..0.. . 0 0 30,000
<br /> Catawba 9 2 0 0 2 0 239,500 Flooding•Stokes ...;'-!....134.-:::"::-:10 u 0 0 12 _ 0 , 2,000,000 ' r
<br /> Yadkin LL 15•::::::::::',..--1. '. 0 - 0 ....1 ' 0 185,000 = :;
<br /> Guilford 1 • 0 0 0 0 '_, 0 50,000
<br /> TOTALS -• 2 -- 7 74 • 4 $9,314,710 " Reported damages
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<br /> -ORNADO EFFECTS—The Monday night tornadoes that in six other North Carolina counties, is expected to cost
<br /> )ped up parts of Hillsborough,as well as spread destruction Orange County as much as $2,75 million.
<br /> Waters-was `s ar ?lu g .- afer storm
<br /> • „. ....my PAUL BROWN' �!i ;�. %,
<br /> I�+E chance in.the early-1960s. -' i
<br /> Staff Writer..•:. r'11 I=-y/Q7/ P "I got interested in fire and rescue several
<br /> I IAPEL HILL—Phillip N:'Nick"Wa Y"' '- ''.' ,w • `r' '-years bacic"'he-said."I think I rode my f rSt
<br /> s was in Bertie County Friday,repairing +J ....,. . '•.,ambulance in 1963, 1964, something like
<br /> r:_rage caused by storms that whipped- ii that.Iwasa volunteer firefighter,and later I
<br /> through'the state a week ago. r A. got a job as a full-tune firefighter."
<br /> It was the end of a long week for Waters, .'' � The switch to emergency management
<br /> e i still more work faced him.By Monday, s was gradual. Windsor had a part-time
<br /> I ;aid,he would be back at his regular job, • ,.. * opening in the U.S. Civil Defense depart-
<br /> assessing how his office responded to the ment,and Waters took the job,performing
<br /> disaster in Orange County and looking at --- -•-•- - - the work during his days off.That job led to
<br /> h'w governments and volunteers would the Burke County directorship in 1978.
<br /> tiriue aiding victims. While in Burke County in 1984,a rash of
<br /> Vaters was in Bertie County repairing tornados hit his home county of Bertie.As
<br /> his mother's roof on Friday. At 3 a.m.the partofastateprogram,Watersvolunteered
<br /> Monday before, he was in the pitch black to return home to help in managing that
<br /> os of central Orange County, where a • i disaster, That week-and-a-half stint paid
<br /> t` tado wrecked neighborhoods, killed '^ dividends early last week.
<br /> ( people and injured 14. • - "A lot of things we saw ir,Bertie County
<br /> ` Few of the victims know his name,but _ were what we saw in Orange County,"he
<br /> Waters was the linchpin in the govern- said.
<br /> 7---It's response to the storm.He takes little NICK WATERS or Waters,the response in any disaster
<br /> lit for an immediate, orderly and sus- nonetheless seemed to be everywhere,from is more business-as-usual than organize-
<br /> :' ed response.But others lavished praise the area of destruction to a workers'staging tional genius.
<br /> on the 49-year-old Windsor native.' area in Hillsborough to news conferences to "I guess you don't organize your mind,"
<br /> "He was the spark'plug,"said Hillsbor- the emergency operations center estab- he said Friday."You try to keep it there all
<br /> c h Police Chief Larry C. Biggs. Mayor lished at N.C.86 and New Hope Church the time. Part of our job is to anticipate.
<br /> ace H.Johnson said the emergency re- Road. "The priorities are the same in any inci-
<br /> - nse"is a model for the state to copy." A soft-spoken man,Waters came to Or- dent like this.1 ne first priority is health and
<br /> Waters cut an unimposing figure during ange County in 1989 from a director's job in safety."
<br /> :ast week s drama.Hatless,in suit and tie, Burke County.He said he always knew he
<br /> usually wearing a dour expression,he wanted to be in emergency work.He got his ).See WATERS, Page Al 2
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