• 5 months ago
This pickup truck was twisted and tossed like a toy by a devastating tornado in Murphy, North Carolina, its mangled remains a stark testament to the storm's raw power. The tornado also destroyed the roof of the adjacent building and tore down a large signboard.
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00:00Well, if you want to see the power of a tornado, this is what happened to the Sherwin-Williams
00:11truck that was picked up and thrown by the tornado 400 yards.
00:20They picked it up and twisted it and flipped it over and over.
00:31If you look all the way back where these folks are, there's a line here.
00:37You can see where all this fluid is.
00:41I'm going to walk that line right now.
00:48That gentleman's up about 50 yards right now.
00:53But that truck was on the other side of the Sherwin-Williams paint building on Valley Center Road here in Murphy, North Carolina.
01:03So we're still walking right now. You can see some of the fluid here.
01:11And it kind of loops, goes back over here where these folks are here in the red shirt,
01:17and loops back around where that big dumpster is there.
01:21So from there, it flipped it and spun it all the way back over there.
01:29Unbelievable.
01:32You definitely don't want to hide in your car when you're having a twister come through.
01:37You can see all the other damage here.
01:42Roof's torn off.
01:45Trees, telephone poles snapped.
01:51And we'll walk over here, and you can see,
01:59this is the sign for Alpha Music and Nate's Country Store.
02:08And Mike had a little bit of damage in there, some water damage.
02:12Sherwin-Williams is completely wiped out.
02:16See everything just taken out of the store, blown out.
02:21You can see the size of this sign here.
02:28Give you an idea how big this sign is.
02:33That's a pretty big steel beam, pretty thick.
02:39Completely bent this over.
02:47And that is the awesome power of a tornado.
03:01And that's still some of the, you can see the roof was completely taken off of the Sherwin-Williams.
03:10Just shredded.
03:15Thanks for watching.

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