- Harvey ripped through central North Carolina on Friday afternoon with winds of up to 90 miles per hour
- Town of Sanford was among the hardest hit with dozens of homes destroyed
- Drone footage shows the extent of the destruction with properties completely destroyed by fallen trees and downed powerlines
- The roof of a warehouse was torn off during the storm and most homes in the area remain without power
- It followed the devastating storms and floods that hit parts of Texas, destroying 100,000 homes and killing at least 44 people
Eerie drone footage has captured the devastation caused by Tropical Storm Harvey after destroying homes in North Carolina.
Harvey ripped through central North Carolina on Friday afternoon with winds of up to 90 miles per hour.
The town of Sanford was one of the hardest hit with dozens of homes and businesses destroyed or damaged.
The eerie drone footage captured the devastation caused by Tropical Storm Harvey after it destroyed dozens of homes in Sanford, North Carolina on Fridau
The drone footage filmed on Saturday shows the extent of the destruction with properties completely destroyed by fallen trees and downed powerlines.
The roof of a warehouse was torn off during the storm and most homes in the area remain without power.
Weather officials said the destruction was caused by a ‘microburst’ with strong winds but said it wasn’t a tornado.
‘We should consider ourselves lucky that we didn’t have additional worse damage and the set up thankfully was just not right for long-track tornadoes or impressive, incredible damaging tornadoes,’ Nick Petro of the National Weather Service told WNCN.
The roof of a warehouse was torn off (above) during the storm and most homes in the area remain without power after Harvey tore through on Friday
Dozens of trees snapped and fell during the destructive storm
The drone footage filmed on Saturday shows the extent of the destruction with properties completely destroyed by fallen trees
It followed the devastating storms and floods that hit parts of Texas, destroying 100,000 homes and killing at least 44 people.
Harvey hit Texas on August 25 as a Category 4 hurricane, but brought the worst flooding to Houston and other communities as a tropical storm.
At least 4,700 Houston dwellings were under new, mandatory evacuation orders on Sunday as engineers relieved pressure on overtaxed city reservoirs.
The town of Sanford was one of the hardest hit with dozens of homes and businesses destroyed or damaged
Harvey ripped through central North Carolina on Friday afternoon with winds of up to 90 miles per hour
Weather officials said the destruction was caused by a ‘microburst’ with strong winds but said it wasn’t a tornado