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Pre-Winter Storm
Aired December 05, 2002 - 14:39 ET
THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.
THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.
KYRA PHILLIPS, CNN ANCHOR: Ice from a major winter storm has brought down trees and power lines, leaving millions of people without power and many people without heat. On of the hardest hits states is North Carolina.
CNN's Jeff Flock is live in Charlotte.
Hi -- Jeff.
JEFF FLOCK, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Hey, Kyra.
You know, I'm listening to you and Orelon talk about the melt on the trees and the ice still on the trees. You're right, it's still up there, Orelon, but it will come down fairly easy. And maybe you can see, it's sort of melting and dropping off.
If we go back into the forest here, and if I don't fall over a tree somewhere, you really get a sense of all of the trees being coated. I don't know if you can see this one here. This is an evergreen here. Look at the ice on this, and look at how heavy the tree gets. And this is still here, and I think you're right, it's not going to get a whole lot of melt today.
And finally, if you come on out here, we can poke out here by the expressway, there are some power lines above us. And boy, asking you to go up and see that is kind of hard, but you can see the ice that has been falling off of it. That's what was on the power lines, and that's part of what helped bring them down, in addition to a limb if it should hit it.
I want to show you even worse damage, and that is over in the neighborhoods, some pictures of the giant trees that have come down. I mean, we're talking 100-year-old oak trees, all sorts of other trees, bringing both power lines down as well as getting on top of houses, and a real neighborhood in Charlotte, too far from where we stand right now, with a lot of firewood in it. Somebody said, I need to get my chain saw out and I'd have enough firewood for the next 5 or 10 years, and he's probably absolutely right.
A lot of those oak trees, by the way, Kyra, which, as we said, have been around for a long time, but have not weathered the great ice storm of 2002.
That's the latest from here. We'll bring you back an icicle or something -- Kyra
PHILLIPS: It's like being at a Green Bay Packers game. You know those well, come on, you're a Chicago guy.
FLOCK: You said it. It's not even that cold, which is good. I'm happy about that.
PHILLIPS: No ice bowl. All right, Jeff Flock, thank you so much.
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Aired December 5, 2002 - 14:39 ET
THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.
KYRA PHILLIPS, CNN ANCHOR: Ice from a major winter storm has brought down trees and power lines, leaving millions of people without power and many people without heat. On of the hardest hits states is North Carolina.
CNN's Jeff Flock is live in Charlotte.
Hi -- Jeff.
JEFF FLOCK, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Hey, Kyra.
You know, I'm listening to you and Orelon talk about the melt on the trees and the ice still on the trees. You're right, it's still up there, Orelon, but it will come down fairly easy. And maybe you can see, it's sort of melting and dropping off.
If we go back into the forest here, and if I don't fall over a tree somewhere, you really get a sense of all of the trees being coated. I don't know if you can see this one here. This is an evergreen here. Look at the ice on this, and look at how heavy the tree gets. And this is still here, and I think you're right, it's not going to get a whole lot of melt today.
And finally, if you come on out here, we can poke out here by the expressway, there are some power lines above us. And boy, asking you to go up and see that is kind of hard, but you can see the ice that has been falling off of it. That's what was on the power lines, and that's part of what helped bring them down, in addition to a limb if it should hit it.
I want to show you even worse damage, and that is over in the neighborhoods, some pictures of the giant trees that have come down. I mean, we're talking 100-year-old oak trees, all sorts of other trees, bringing both power lines down as well as getting on top of houses, and a real neighborhood in Charlotte, too far from where we stand right now, with a lot of firewood in it. Somebody said, I need to get my chain saw out and I'd have enough firewood for the next 5 or 10 years, and he's probably absolutely right.
A lot of those oak trees, by the way, Kyra, which, as we said, have been around for a long time, but have not weathered the great ice storm of 2002.
That's the latest from here. We'll bring you back an icicle or something -- Kyra
PHILLIPS: It's like being at a Green Bay Packers game. You know those well, come on, you're a Chicago guy.
FLOCK: You said it. It's not even that cold, which is good. I'm happy about that.
PHILLIPS: No ice bowl. All right, Jeff Flock, thank you so much.
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