GREENSBORO, N.C. -- Authorities began combing through the wreckage Friday caused by a twister that killed one person and injured three others in central North Carolina -- part of a storm system that swept through the Southeast and the Mid-Atlantic, leaving damaged homes and businesses in its wake. (The article's fourth paragraph mentions Clemmons ... and a half dozen damaged homes. Others had their homes leveled and much more damage than ours, but we lost a good bit.) One person was killed when a small truck overturned in a parking lot just west of Greensboro, said Guilford County emergency services director Alan Perdue. He said three others were injured, one when the storm knocked down a wall at a distributing business, and two others when their vehicles flipped off the road.
Authorities were looking for any other victims in an industrial park on the edge of town.
Dan Ozimek, director of Forsyth County EMS in North Carolina, said about a half-dozen homes were damaged in the Clemmons area just west of Winston-Salem, including one home that was leveled. Ozimek said a woman and two children in the home had moved to the basement shortly before the storm arrived.
"That made a big difference," Ozimek said. "We've dodged a bullet. We were real fortunate."
Michelle Brock, assistant coordinator for Forsyth County emergency management, said firefighters rescued five people because of flooding in Winston-Salem. She said high water ...
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