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Raleigh Nc: A sudden spring storm raged through North Carolina on Saturday, flattening homes and businesses, forcing officials to an unknown number of victims of a system that has already been blamed for killing 17 people in four states.

North Carolina officials said there were several dead and they worked to confirm the exact number. In South Carolina, a church with six people inside collapsed after being hit by a tornado, but somehow no one was injured.

The situation is darker in the north. Roofs were torn from the shops, trees were torn from the ground and “scores” of homes were damaged across the state, Director of Emergency Management said Doug Hoell.
Raleigh Police evacuated residents in a mobile park, and rescue teams went door to door in search of injured or trapped by the storm that turned mobile homes on one side of the street another.

Guillermo Villela, 34, said he saw two young children in the park trapped under fallen trees.

“I see a lot of disaster. It’s bad,” Villela said.

The storms began in Oklahoma on Thursday and marched through Arkansas, Mississippi, Alabama and Georgia.

In the town of Sanford in central North Carolina, which could have been a deadly disaster was averted when a Lowe’s hardware store manager who saw the storm approaching, and penned more than 100 people at the back of the store .

The front of Lowe’s has been razed by the storm, with cars in the parking lot and tossed it flipped onto its roof.

“It was really a bad scene,” said Jeff Blocker, chairman of Lowe’s Regional Vice-eastern North Carolina. “You’re just amazed that nobody was hurt.”

Blocker credits his store manager and 40 to 50 other employees in the store when making the largest number of 70 clients safely in the rear.

Cindy Hall, a Red Cross volunteer and outreach minister at First Baptist Church in Sanford, said dozens of houses in the area were damaged.

Raleigh Nc | Tornado in Raleigh, NC