IREDELL COUNTY, N.C. — Storms that blew through the area left their mark in Mooresville, and Channel 9 reporter Glenn Counts spoke with homeowners of two houses damaged by fallen trees.
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“Was I frightened? That’s not even the right word,” resident Marth Roberts said. “I just thought, ‘Well, your time has come, girl, so.’”
Roberts, 74, has lived in the home for more than 30 years. She was upstairs when an oak tree split in two, crashing onto the home.
“When I come out of the bathroom, got next to my bedroom door, it’s like the house exploded,” she said. “That’s really how it sounded to me.”
She was not injured.
A tree also damaged the home, of Natalie Nivens, who lives about 10 minutes away.
“I’m glad that I was not in the bedroom, nor the kitchen,” she said. “And I’m glad my daughter was still at school.”
A tree smashed into her home damaging her kitchen and bathroom.
Nivens said she was doing laundry and cleaning at the time.
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“Then I come in the living room, and I was out there for about 10 minutes,” she said. “And then I heard, like a crack. Then I looked over at my kitchen and you saw half the ceiling on the floor, and I see half the tree hanging from the ceiling.”
The homes had major structural damage, so the residents are finding another place to live for the time being.
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