There were Glen White, 24, who found the strength to climb a wall that had fallen on five residents of a group home. There were the married couple who have thrown in their backyard as the storm exploded at their home. They landed enough close, battered and bruised, in the hands.
And Molly, a donkey aging which, for years, played in the city of Christmas contest there. They say that they saw thrown in the funnel cloud when the storm hit Saturday night. They thought that she was a goner.
But, Sunday morning, its owner, Jake Dunlow, 75, found on his back in a ditch about 300 feet away. A day later, she was in her own grazing pasture, forgetting fragments of seven mobile homes around it.
Yes, 11 people died in these dark and deafening 10 minutes. Dozens have been affected and houses were destroyed.
As a people chosen by the mess and was presented with the water and chicken fried shelters temporary Monday, everyone seemed to mix their grief and shock with a sense of marvel a mile-wide tornado that blew through the land of chicken and fields of peanut homes with winds of 165 miles an hour has not made worse.
"We are lucky, this is everything that I can tell," said Mr. Dunlow.
Death here in Bertie County were the last of the 45 in several southern States, attributed to unusually high storm, who made his first life in Oklahoma on Wednesday before chugging east.
To 7 p.m. on Saturday, she sent a fierce - or perhaps two - tornado on the ground here, last fatal act of the storm before exiting to the Atlantic Ocean.
As much as people can tell, he first touched a cow pasture in this small town in the northeast corner of the State road a half hour of the Outer Banks beaches.
It is one of the poorest regions of the State and one of the less populated. But people know each other here in Askewville, named after a family prominent shipping local and pronounced ASK-yu-ville. They stock their gardens with martin houses put order and low for striped fish in the river and discuss if cotton will do better this year than the famous Bertie County peanuts.
It was just another slow spring Saturday evening when the tornado struck this field, Molly sending in the air and removing seven mobile homes that Mr. Dunlow owned and used for retirement income (that the money went good because he did not carry insurance).
He ignored up above the trees, hit a mobile home, just north of the city and killed the woman who lived alone. Moving to perhaps 60 miles an hour, he ploughed Morris Ford road, where Ava Moore Daniels, 47, runs a pair of group homes for the residents of physical and mental challenges.
His nephew, Mr. White, helped take care of six people in a House when he saw two chimneys coming toward him. He has everyone thrown in the bathroom, then watched the tornado to take off the roof. It was more in perhaps 15 seconds, he said.
Everyone was okay, then he went to the outside and a given that the group home nearby collapsed.
He ran and heard, despite the raging hail and wind and thunder, the cries of "Glen, help! Waving a hand under a wall collapsed.
"I picked up this wall just as he was not there," he said. "I don't know where I had the strength."
He held it until some people of the first House and a good Samaritan who was driving by rushed to help it to maintain it and withdraw from the market shaken residents.
Four residents and a member of staff has survived, but a woman in her late 60 and a 52-year-old man was dead under the rubble.
The tornado then bore down on a little house in a field of corn that James Levon White, 58, shares with his wife, Hattie White, 49. He worked in a center of agricultural equipment. It is a correctional officer.
The sky suddenly darkened. All he could think of was at the head of the wardrobe of House bedroom. She received on the floor. It is Crouching on it. They held each other.
"All of the sudden, I heard the screech, as when nails get as is retired and lumber that really strong ROAR," he said. "We have closed the eyes, and when we woke, once again, we were outside."
The tornado blew their entire House, except the porch, in the trees. They fell in the air, about 30 feet of flight. The storm dropped in court back, bruised and cut, shoulder sprain.
"When we landed here we just two feet of the other," he said. "I could arrive at the topic and touching." We have been blessed. ?
Others were less fortunate. In the next few minutes, the tornado would pass to U.S. 42 and killing a couple and elderly mother who lived with them. A man died on the farm Nowell road, with more than two people on Highway near Harrell, said Jennifer stalls, 29, a worker medical emergency which had been released to help save the wounded body and recovery in the night. Last life has lost close to Glovers Cross Road, firefighters said.
Then the storm turned to the North, into Virginia and led by sea.
There will be cleaning to make and funeral plan. People will wait and see if insurance will help them to rebuild. They count their blessings that they mourn their losses and talk of a plan of God and the work of God. And they will be the resilience of the most famous ass of the city.
"Going from Molly make a game of Christmas," said Tiffany Everett, 44, which had led to the group home destroyed to lend a hand.
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