Twister Knocks Station off the Air

Instead of putting on a newscast, the staff at WFMY (Greensboro) was taking shelter from a tornado that was passing by the station. 

WFMY's 5PM newscast was knocked off the air as the twister side-swiped the station. The crew, which was supposed to be on the air, had to seek shelter in a cinder-block hallway as the twister passed overhead.

The storm knocked out power and communications at WFMY and caused significant damage just one neighborhood away.

As the storm approached, the meteorologists hustled everyone to their shelter locations.

“It was nerve-racking,” said Terran Kirksey, another meteorologist at WFMY. “I’ve covered tornadoes on-air since 2010, and that was the first time one impacted my station.”

H/T Washington Post

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