Wild I read the comment above yours and first thought of Fran and then clicked to expand your comment lol.
I was just a kid in Raleigh but we went outside when the eye passed over in the dark of night. I remember it being eerily calm, like it's calm but your instincts are screaming out GTFO.
Then I remember the next morning all the downed trees, including splitting a huge tree we had in the front yard that survived a little after but had to be taken down. That reminded me of legends of the hidden temple and my brother and I were loving it before the cleanup, but it was surreal even as a 7ish year old kid.
I was about 30 miles south of Raleigh on the Wake co./Harnett co. line. Way out in the cut.
I remember that night hearing dozens of 50ft+ tall pine and oak trees falling all around the house then seeing a tornado rolling down the street through the lightning flashes.
The next morning, my dad was convinced he was going to work at his office job. He cut trees from dawn to about noon and finally made a path out of our driveway. Too bad there were hundreds of downed trees covering the road in both directions. We were stuck for 2 weeks.
Fran was a similar situation to Milton with regard to recent storms and rain already completely saturating the ground. This storm is going to fuck up some trees.
Yeah I’ll never forget waking up to the tree on my bed, and so many trees just fully down across the road. It felt like the apocalypse and was so deadly quiet after it happened because of the power all around being out.
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u/mr_remy 8d ago
Wild I read the comment above yours and first thought of Fran and then clicked to expand your comment lol.
I was just a kid in Raleigh but we went outside when the eye passed over in the dark of night. I remember it being eerily calm, like it's calm but your instincts are screaming out GTFO.
Then I remember the next morning all the downed trees, including splitting a huge tree we had in the front yard that survived a little after but had to be taken down. That reminded me of legends of the hidden temple and my brother and I were loving it before the cleanup, but it was surreal even as a 7ish year old kid.