Storms in Piedmont of North Carolina.

The trees are splintered where the tornado went thru the woods.

Looks like it was bad in that area.  This is the picture that blew my mind.  I don't know why, but I always thought a granite head stone would be pretty stable.

Whats really strange about the cemetary picture is the flowers right in the middle of all those headstones survived.

It is amazing how somethings are affected and other things in same area are untouched. I remember when hurricane Hugo came through in 89 and spawned several tornados locally. Dad was the supervisor at the saw mill and he would come home aggrivated for months because the damaged trees would explode when they hit the saw head.They had been twisted by the winds and were still in a state of tension. He said the trees looked normal and would run through the debarker without trouble but time they hit the saw head they would fly apart destroying the saws, so they would have to shut down for several hours to change out the saws and reset everything. I think he had one night that it happened three times and since they were on production there were many nights they worked straight through until first shift showed up the next morning. Every time a storm comes through now he talks about how glad he is to be retired so that he won't have to deal with it again.