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emnrrat Special report: S.C. storms Orangeburg, S.C., Wednesday, August 17, 1994, Page 7A 7 Wit If. aiamiwu amw uwi.naa 1 I 4 j( ji I 1 i a -r 1 I ill I -yfji r-. 1 i i I I it i yir die onu(jjcid ieuijuicuiiy trapped 4 in Lex- L.GAU pyiui i uui ny si leim uepuiy sianas Dy some oi tne Dunaings in village square snopping center ington, S.C. Some people were trapped in the buildings after a tornado struck Tuesday.

(AP Photo) Oiy J4 sxM Business devastated Marie Gillman looks at the damage to her family business, Microfilm Systems, in Lexington, S.C, after a tornado hit Tuesday. (AP Photo) Victims happy just to have survived By JESSE J. HOLLAND Associated Press Writer 1 --m tii tat Street closed Debris covers North Lake Drive in downtown Lexington, S.C, after a tornado struck the area Tuesday. (AP Photo) LEXINGTON, S.C. Richard Hicks sat nervously at Lexington Medical Center in the hours after a tornado swept through here, wondering how badly his mother had been hurt.

He was driving home Tuesday when he saw her car overturned in the middle of a highway. "I ran into a damn guardrail when I saw that," Hicks said as he waited to find out Patricia Watts' condition. "I wish somebody here would tell me something. It's hell sitting here and not knowing anything." Later, he learned she was in fair condition. Wiley and Pat Easton of Lexington said they watched in horror from across the street as a funnel James Metts said.

At least 23 were treated at Lexington Medical Center, where all but four were treated and released, a hospital spokeswoman said. Valerie Odom, 21, of Irmo cried and hugged herself for comfort as she waited for her mother. Odom was on Interstate 20, driving back from registering for classes at the University of South Carolina-Aiken, when the wind flipped her car into a ditch. She was still shaking in the emergency room about 1-12 hours later. "I don't want to believe that this has said as she wiped tears from her eyes.

"My car is totaled, but that doesn't matter. Fm just glad to be alive." David Thomas also was inside the auto parts store when it collapsed. "It was roaring like a train," he said, looking off in the distance. "I couldn't hear anything else but that roaring. I can still hear it in my mind now." Thomas tried to comfort Carta Waters as she rushed into the emergency room.

Waters' fiance, Jamie Summers, was also inside the destroyed store. "He's O.K, he's O.K.," Thomas said, hugging Waters with one arm. His other arm was bound in a makeshift sling. Brand Baughman of Charlotte, N.C., remembered the windows of an office building shaking and "a cloud destroyed an auto parts store WatPr water PVPnwhprp on tOD of their 23-vPflr-nIH son Ttpv Wclle' CVCry Wfiere 1 IT Morris Moore and Norma "Home Of Five State Champions" QflssIPtnn S3 "The cloud just came down and collapsed the store on him," Mrs. Easton said, tears streaming down her face.

"We saw the tornado pick up the roof of the store, hold it in the air and then drop it back on the store. The cloud picked up some cinder blocks and slammed them down on the store before it moved on." Because of rain earlier in the day, he had gone to the store to pick up a pair of windshield wipers, his mother said. Now he was in surgery for a hand injury, a hospital spokeswoman said. Throughout the evening frantic families and relatives huddled to Cantrell of Westminster, S.C, share an unbrella as they try to stay dry while hauling bottled water to their car Tuesday in Westminster. Hundreds of Westminster residents picked up donated bottled water and filled containers with water brought in by the National Guard after Westminster shut down its water treatment plant because of high water in the Chauga River.

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