Tornado at Gaston College causes power outage, officer trapped, Dallas NC
Weather EventA tornado struck near Gaston College, causing a power outage. During the event, a campus police officer was trapped in an elevator when the power went out and spent time lying down inside it.
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Transcript:
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I will make a quick comment just to respond to Will's little message here. I have never been caught in an elevator and I don't think I would like it.
00:08
But I'll never forget at Gaston College the day before. I was working at the library there on campus and I was about to leave.
00:23
I got off at 5.30 and about 4.30, 4.45 a tornado came through, which we don't have many of those around there, but we have one.
00:35
I think there's been two or three in my life. So anyway, this was the day before I was. walked for graduation there and did that and we locked down and all and right after it was all over the power went out no big shock here but one of the campus police officers was in there talking in the library and he's and I will never forget this he was laughing about it he said he was in the elevator when the power went off and apparently it stopped and wouldn't go back and he said I I didn't know what else to do, so I just lay down in the floor and took a nap.
01:13
And I don't know if that was true or talk, but that's what he said with a straight face.
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Location mentioned:
Near US-321, Dallas, NC 28034
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