WENTWORTH — A friend called Joe Baez on Friday night to warn him a tornado was coming. The retired middle school principal said he had just reached the bottom of the steps to his basement when he heard what sounded like a freight train.
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A tree crew works to remove downed trees from Joe Baez’s property Saturday after a storm the night before.
Wentworth resident Joe Baez is cleaning up after several trees fell on his house during Friday's storm.
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A tree crew works to remove downed trees from Joe Baez's property after the storm in Reidsville, N.C., on Saturday, May 7, 2022.
Two large oak trees fell on Karen Wilson's home on Wentworth Street from Friday's storm in Reidsville, N.C., on Saturday, May 7, 2022. Wilson said the trees crushed her granddaughter's bedroom. "She would have been killed if she would have been in there," she said. "I went back in there and the house was creaking so I ran out. I'm not going back in there. I don't know what I'm going to do."
A sewer pipe was broken during Friday's storm in Joe Baez's home seen here in Reidsville, N.C., on Saturday, May 7, 2022.
Tops were torn out of trees along Wentworth Street from Friday's storm in Reidsville, N.C., on Saturday, May 7, 2022.
Two large oak trees fell on Karen Wilson's home on Wentworth Street from Friday's storm in Reidsville, N.C., on Saturday, May 7, 2022.
A tree crew works to remove downed trees from Joe Baez's property after the storm in Reidsville, N.C., on Saturday, May 7, 2022.
Fallen trees and downed utility lines on Wentworth Street from Friday's storm in Reidsville, N.C., on Saturday, May 7, 2022.
Two large oak trees fell on Karen Wilson's home on Wentworth Street from Friday's storm in Reidsville, N.C., on Saturday, May 7, 2022.
Fallen trees on Wentworth Street from Friday's storm in Reidsville, N.C., on Saturday, May 7, 2022.
Reid Hooper points out damage outside his home on Salem Church Road near Cedar Lane in Wentworth, N.C., on Saturday, May 7, 2022. Hooper said this was not the first time there have been trees downed on his property. He said a hurricane in June 2016 also damaged his home.
A tree crew works to remove downed trees from Joe Baez's property after the storm in Reidsville, N.C., on Saturday, May 7, 2022.
Fallen tree at Salem United Methodist Church on Salem Church Road in Reidsville, N.C., on Saturday, May 7, 2022.
