CAROLINA SHORES, N.C. (AP) - It wasn’t the ice that concerned Debbie Cole. It was the trees surrounding her house.
Cole, 54, who lives with her 88-year-old mother at Carolina Shores, said her power flickered but remained on during the day Wednesday. The pines were her chief concern.
“We have limbs coming down all around us,:” she said. “Our street had a big tree fall right across the road and they did come through and chop that up for us.”
Cole said she’s even afraid to leave the house and take a look around.
“You cannot go outside. It’s very, very dangerous with all the falling debris from the trees. Even pine cones are like grenades,” she said.
“You go outside and it almost sounds like gunfire with all the limbs coming down. Cars are going through on the road. The road is wet. But it’s the falling limbs and the falling trees, and from what I hear, the falling power lines,” Cole said.
Cole said she and her mother will stay by the fireplace and ride out the weather, especially of the power goes out.
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