'It was crazy': Man says car shifted into other lane during Wake tornado warning
THE LANES ACCORDINGLY AND MAKE
SURE YOU HAVE THOSE SAFE
BRAKING DISTANCES. ALRIGHT,
CHELSEA DONOVAN IS RIGHT AT
LEESVILLE ROAD AND MILLBROOK
ROAD RIGHT NOW IN CHELSEA.
I KNOW YOU TALKED TO SOME FOLKS
AROUND THERE WHO MAY HAVE SEEN
SOME THANKS.
>> YEAH, ABSOLUTELY.
METEOROLOGIST AIMEE WILMOTH
CONFIRMING THERE WAS SOME
ROTATION IN THIS AREA. AND
CRAIG MORROW WHO LIVES IN
RALEIGH SAW IT ALL. WALK ME
THROUGH YOUR MORNING AS YOU ARE
HEADING SOUTH. WELL, I WAS
ACTUALLY JUST COMING TO OR FROM
CRABTREE VALLEY MALL AND I WAS
JUST DRIVING ALONG HERE AND WE
WITH A WARNING CALL ON THE
RADIO.
>> AND LITERALLY WITHIN 10
SECONDS. RAIN WAS JUST COMING
DOWN LIKE CRAZY ELSE
APPROACHING THE INTERSECTION
HERE OF THIS BILL AND ALSO TO
ALL THESE RANCHES STARTED
BLOWING. MY CAR BLEW A LITTLE
BIT OVER TO THE RIGHT LANE AND
WE SAW SOME MOVEMENT AND THEN
WITHIN LIKE 10 SECONDS, IT WAS
SO IT WAS GOT TO JUST FRAZEE
NEVER EXPERIENCED ANYTHING LIKE
THAT. AND IT WAS. THAT'S WHAT
IT'S LIKE. WHAT WERE YOU
THINKING WHEN YOU'RE LIKE AT
THIS INTERSECTION BRANCHES?
HE SAID WE'RE COMING AT YOU,
YOUR CARS KIND OF SHIFTED.
I THOUGHT TO MYSELF FOR THE
20 OR SO LIKE I SAID, JUST
SHIFTED BY CAR LITTLE BIT.
BUT
>> THINGS WERE FLYING ALL OVER
THE PLACE AND LIKE I SAID, LEFT
ABOUT.
>> 10 SECONDS. AND THEN
EVERYTHING BECAME PUBLIC.
AND YET YOU SAID YOU PULLED
INTO THIS PARK AND ARE ACTUALLY
PULLED INTO THIS NEIGHBORHOOD
DOWN HERE WHERE IN A MINUTE
WE'LL SHOW YOU FOLKS THAT
THERE'S A TREE COMPLETELY
BLOCKING THAT AREA. AND THEN
WHAT? WELL, LIKE I SAID, I JUST
WANT TO TURN OF THE DRIVEWAY TO
SURROUND THE BACK OF THE WAY.
AND THAT WAS JUST A BIG TREE
DOWN AND
>> DOWNPOURS ABOUT A 30ND.
SOME OF THE RAIN STOPPED AND
ONE OF THE THINGS YOU SAID TO
ME, CRAIG, WAS YOU GOT THE
WARNING. IT SAID THE STORM WAS
NEAR RDU THOUGHT, OKAY, I'M
FINE. BUT THIS SPEAKS TO JUST
HOW QUICKLY THIS BAND IS MOVING
THROUGH HERE BECAUSE
>> IT HIT YOU VERY QUICKLY.
>> I SAID IT CAME WHEN IT WAS
DRIZZLING AND THEN 10 SECONDS
LATER THIS YEAR AND TO THIS
WALL OF WATER AND THEN CLEARED
AND THEN STUFF STARTED LOCAL
ROUND BY CAR. BUT A LITTLE BIT.
SO A LITTLE BIT OF MOVEMENT,
THE STREET AND THAT WAS OVER
>> WE'RE CERTAINLY GLAD YOU'RE
SAFE. WHAT A WHAT AN EVENTFUL
TRIP TO THE MALL TO OF YOU GOT
WHAT YOU NEED I DID IT WELL.
THANK YOU SO MUCH. I APPRECIATE
YOU WALK OVER HERE WITH AND SO
WE CAN SHOW YOU KIND OF WHAT HE
WAS SAYING. THIS IS THE
INTERSECTION THAT HE WAS AT
HERE AT LEESVILLE AND
MILLBROOK. IF YOU'RE FAMILIAR,
THIS IS WHAT AN A I'M SORRY.
WHAT MEADOW PARK. ALL RIGHT.
SO THESE ARE THE BRANCHES HE
SAID CAME DOWN VERY QUICKLY.
YOU CAN SEE HERE NOW BACK
BEHIND ME, THOSE TREE BRANCHES
DOWN AS WELL. THE LIGHTS HERE
ARE ALL WORKING. THAT'S GOOD
NEWS. BUT YOU CAN SEE OBVIOUSLY
EVIDENCE OF ALL THAT DEBRIS
COURTESY OF THAT ROTATION HERE
IN THE ROADWAY. WHAT CRAIG WAS
TALKING ABOUT IS ONE STREET
DOWN AND WE'LL HIT THAT IN A
MOMENT. THERE'S A VERY BIG TREE
AND POLICE AND ACTUALLY A TREE
CREW ALREADY AT WORK HERE WITH
THAT IS ALL COME DOWN HERE IN
THIS. ALL JUST HAPPENED AS YOU
HEARD, CRAIG, IN JUST A MATTER
OF SECONDS. HE THOUGHT HE WAS
OK, HEARING THAT WARNING
SAYING, OKAY, THERE MAY BE SOME
ROTATION OVER AT RDU. IT WAS
GOING HOME. AND NEXT THING,
YOU KNOW, AS YOU CAN, HE SAID
THAT WALL OF WATER AND THAT
DEBRIS COMING AT HIM VERY
QUICKLY. GOOD THING THAT HE
IS SAFE. OBVIOUSLY, THOUGH,
WE'LL GET CONTINUE TO KIND OF
CHECK OUT SOME OF THE DAMAGE IN
THIS AREA AND BRING YOU OUR
LIVE REPORTS. WE'RE LIVE AT