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This map recreates the path of Hurricane Hazel, which cut through North Carolina and touched off the tornado Howard Kinton Oliver remembers wreaking havoc in his Granville County community.<\/p><\/div>\n

By KATIE MOSHER<\/h3>\n

The full thrust of Hurricane Florence was still pummeling North Carolina\u2019s coast and southeastern counties this afternoon. But the National Weather Service<\/a> was issuing tornado warnings even for communities near Wake County.<\/p>\n

That was just what Howard Kinton Oliver had expected.<\/p>\n

On Thursday, as Florence was heading toward North Carolina, his call from Topeka, Kansas was forwarded to my cell phone. He had been reading up not only on news of the current storm, but also our Coastwatch\u00a0<\/em>stories\u00a0<\/a>about Hurricane Hazel\u00a0<\/a>in October 1954.<\/p>\n

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Shrimp boats came to rest blocks away from the Southport waterfront. Photo courtesy Art Newton\/The State Port Pilot.<\/p><\/div>\n

He was eager to ask if anyone may have memories of Hazel\u2019s destruction, not just near the coast, but also into the other parts of the state. Thus, if you recall that storm or have old news clippings in your family archives, please post them on our social media feeds or send them to me directly at kmosher@ncsu.edu<\/a><\/em>.<\/p>\n

Oliver also shared clear memories of a tornado that spun out of Hazel\u2019s winds and hit Granville County. \u201cI don\u2019t think I will ever forget.\u201d<\/p>\n

It was the fall of his senior year at Oak Hill High School. He was at home, but his sister was at school, as she had just finished a basketball game. In their farming community, people could tell when a bad storm was coming, so his sister and her friend went across the street to the teacher residence and alerted them.<\/p>\n

In fact, the tornado arrived shortly after the alert. \u201cIt traveled far north,\u201d Oliver recalls. \u201cIt took the second story off our school.\u201d<\/p>\n

The damage was severe. \u201cI had to go to Stovall to finish out the semester,\u201d he says. The Oak Hill students had classes in the afternoons, while Stovall students shifted all their classes to the mornings.<\/p>\n

An even greater loss came the morning after the twister, when their principal suffered a heart attack and died.<\/p>\n

Oliver recalls other damage in Granville County, including the loss of many trees on the property of an orphanage in Oxford. \u201cBut no children got hurt.\u201d<\/p>\n

He even took a few moments to compare the limited notice that the state and the nation had for Hazel\u2019s extended impacts, versus the 24-hour news coverage of Florence. \u201cWe knew about the hurricane, but we didn\u2019t think it would come that far,\u201d he notes. When the storm conditions did pick up in Granville County, the family started listening to the radio as their limited communications option.<\/p>\n

Oliver\u2019s family moved to Oxford later that year. He graduated from high school there, then joined the U.S. Air Force. Military duties took him to the Arctic Circle, and to Kansas. \u201cI married a girl from Kansas.\u201d<\/p>\n

He still has plenty of family in North Carolina \u2014 he was one of 11 boys and seven girls. And there even was a community known as Kinton Corners with some homes and a store.<\/p>\n

Much has changed in North Carolina since Hurricane Hazel, but Oliver\u2019s memories remain. Do yours?<\/p>\n

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