And here is a surreal video as it comes directly at downtown Raleigh. It traveled a northeasterly path. The camera is looking toward the southwest:
http://www.wral.com/weather/video/9454747/#/vid9454747
This is time lapse taken from a downtown tower, but it came mighty fast in real time too....we were watching the live TV feed, and when the rain hit the building the camera is in, that was when we headed to the basement fast. So I didn't see the last part until this was posted. We're north-northwest of downtown about a mile, and this traveled just east of the downtown core, passing to the left of the building the camera is in, where Shaw University historic campus is. Virtually every building on the campus apparently has damage to varying degrees, and they have closed for the semester, and the grade you had is the grade you get...no final exam to try to lift a low grade...what a bummer.
Tornadoes and trees do not mix. The path took it directly through all three of our city-owned historic cemeteries, and there isn't a tree left in two of them: many uprooted, others snapped off, the rest seriously damaged with lost limbs. The third was the pauper's cemetery, so it had less landscape, and less to damage.
The neighborhood landscapes along the path are decimated, and buildings have varying degrees of damage mostly from trees and high wind, but only in a few places in the city were buildings erased wholesale.
The situation is bad and sad, but it could have been much much worse.
D.
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Dan Becker, Division Manager
City & Regional Planning Division
Raleigh Department of City Planning
One Exchange Plaza, Ste 300 (27601)
PO Box 590, Raleigh NC, 27602
919/516-2632 (v); 919/516-2682 (f)
http://www.raleighnc.gov
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Sent: Sunday, April 17, 2011 11:34 AM
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Subject: [BP] big storms
For hose unfamiliar with tornados
The effect is Orwellian and chilling ; the whole landscape goes surreal and ghastly in a still eerie half light
of sun and weird shadow that is mesmerising ; magnetic; and if you stick around deadly as a snake
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