I had my daughter by emergency C-section within 15 minutes of the hurricane hitting Jacksonville NC. She'll be 25 on September 5th. 25th anniversary of the Storm. So much deviation everywhere around us and we even had a huge tree in our house when I got home.😢 Prayers for all those that lost so much, when I got the best gift ever given.

I was only 3 when hurricane Fran hit. My mom told me that during the storm my family was all hunkered down in the only interior hallway of our house. My brother and I were left in our bedroom to sleep. Trees started to hit the house and my mom told my dad she was going to get my brother and me and bring us to hunker down with them. My Dad said they're asleep don't wake them up it'll all be over soon. My mom didn't listen and grabbed us anyways. She said about 10 minutes later a tree fell completely though my brother and mines bedroom. My bed and his crib completely destroyed. Thank God for mothers intuition. I don't remember the storm itself but I do have vivid images I remember of my backyard being nothing but laid down trees, and then months later nothing but dirt. I remember not being able to sleep in my room again for months and there being a giant hole in the middle of my bedroom ceiling/roof.

I now live way up in Virginia but was born and raised in Johnston County, NC. I'll never forget this storm. I was 12. If I live to be 100 I'll never forget seeing the tags on all the Line trucks and tree service trucks from all over nearby States. Seeing them unload with exhausted-looking Men. We were less than 100 miles from the coast and got hit hard but our power was still only out maybe 10 days. Absolutely incredible and I thank God for the Linemen and Tree services crew that came to help. Despite them leaving massive ruts in our yard. Haha They ended up having to clear-cut a massive forest that was east of our house. I have never, still to this day, seen anything like that. It looked like, for as far as I could see, a hand had just wiped trees down in this marshy forest area that extended several miles east. The road east of our house was totally impassable for almost a month and the flooding was unbelievable. The Neuse river was a sight to behold that year!

I remember this all too well. It was devastating for NC. Northern Duplin Co was hit hard by at least 3 tornadoes. It brought down 4 pine trees on my house and many more around the house. My parents and I had to spend the night on the floor in the hallway.

I lived in Sumter Square in Raleigh back then. I NEVER seen weather like this before. Very scary for a New Yorker to see

Yes Lord. I was working at Wal-Mart in Spring Lake, and driving a school bus for the county. No school for up to 8 days. No power for 2 days. Two hurricanes that year. Bertha in July and Fran. The most memory was the Cape Fear River in Fayetteville came way up . I had school bus route by Kelly Springfield tire plant. Whem I went to pick up a student and said all I had to do was get off the bus and I could see the river.

Fran hit just 8 weeks after hurricane Bertha

I will never forget hurricane Fran! It was awful. The trees falling on the house, the trees hitting the ground, the cracking and popping of those trees. I live in Wilmington and was without power for three weeks. I will never forget the men coming to my door to tell me they were there to repair my electricity. I ask them where they were from. The young man said he was from Mississippi. I told him my favorite people where from Mississippi!

I will never forget Fran.. that was a scary night. It terrified me and to this day when I see a hurricane forming in the Atlantic, I get a scared feeling. I hope I never have to live through another one like Fran.

Somehow my grandma survived Fran, my grandma was at burgaw in 1996 and she still live there.

I was about a year and 5 months when Fran came knocking on north Carolinas door and my mother said I slept through the whole store. My mom on the other hand was panicking and trying to keep my dad up during the storm.

I remember I was 12, and new to NC- moved from NY not too long ago...it was bad did not expect how bad it ended up being. We didn't have power for a week in Holly springs.

Jacksonville, NC native. Fran destroyed our home on Dawson Cabin when I was a kid.

I live in Wilmington and rode through Fran and Bertha, as well as all the rest of them since 1984. But I remember Fran being the most terrifying hurricane I’ve ever experienced and it was at nighttime which made it so much spookier

My Grandmother always remembered Hurricane Fran in '96, she told me a tree crashed through the roof of the house I currently reside in here in Fayetteville. Let alone this was only 8 weeks after Bertha that same year, though suprisingly Bertha wasn't retired as a Hurricane name. Although Fran was. Along with 2 others, Ceasar and Hortense.

I had just moved to NC for grad school (go heels). I remember seeing the gigantic pine trees outside blown nearly horizontal. We were without power for maybe 3+ days.

I remember this storm well I was in 7th grade out of school for 2 weeks and no power for 2 weeks

Topsail is a barrier island. It's a storm break by definition to help protect the mainland. Fran was on the low end of the major hurricane scale. This will happen again and much worse.

Isaias was about to take a similar track to Fran, and all of WRAL's staff was worried. The moment the storm picked up speed, they were hopeful. Their, and our prayers, have been answered. Eastern NC wasn't lucky, they got a large EF3 tornado and the wind gusts we initially were gonna get. We were lucky that the forecast changed.

We lived through this! Unbelievable!

I remember having cake and ice cream for my grandfather's birthday while watching the coverage of Fran about to come ashore.

I was 10 and lived in a trailer in Clayton when it hit. Thankfully I fell asleep right before the trees in the back yard started cracking and falling. We were without power for two weeks. I was a kid, it was, like an uncomfortable adventure because you didn’t have the responsibilities and worries of an adult. But now as an adult every year, I worry what if we get another Fran, and now that I have kids and my own home it’s a fear on how to protect them on something you can’t control. Just the best you can I suppose, but it definitely stays with you!!!

I was 30 when Fran hit my birthday is 9/11 celebrated birthday with no power in my home but happy to still have one trees covered the whole road and all around trees were down but none fell on my house very lucky I remember it had rained a lot the week before and the ground was saturated

I've lived in Sneads Ferry most of my life and I was here when Fran hit, I was 14. I live about 5 minutes from North Topsail Beach and I remember seeing the devastation Fran left in it's wake. I was without power for at least 2 weeks and I'll never forget the sound of the pine trees snapping in the wind. I know Raleigh got hit too but nowhere even close to what we experienced. People in the triangle don't know shit about Fran, sorry but it's the truth

These fools in Raleigh act like they did something cutting one tree. Should have been stuck with us in Pender, Dillon and new Hanover county. Out of power for like 3 weeks

I was working second shift out at RTP and we got off work at ten minutes after midnight. Usually took about 20 minutes to get home to Raleigh, but Wade Ave was already washed out at Jaycee Park and finding a way through the roads blocked by downed trees that night it took until around three-thirty AM before I got home ... just in time to watch the power go out. It was about four weeks before my little neighborhood got power back.

I lived in Kentwood in west Raleigh at the time. I woke up and a tree was through my room.

25 years ago....😔

Fran was devastating!

So proud to be a north carolinian

Such a shame greg fishel is not with them no more

i remember when Fran come to Airport Amoco Gas Station at 12 am on that day and it felt like the gas station would blow away

If this happened again which I hope it won’t everyone will be so afraid of each other to help because of the times we live in

That power outage was fixed in 5 days after a cat 3 hurricane. Florence was a cat 1 and it took 2 weeks to get my power back. I was thankful when they fixed it and still is

I remember the next day the smell of fresh pine in the air because of all the downed trees and broken limbs.

I remember this hurricane, trees and power lines were snapping everywhere! Some people even got flooded out of their homes!

I was a kid. We tried to leave our house, got stuck at every single road with downed trees or powerlines. Slept in the car in Bunn High School. Then power out for like 2 weeks, stung by yellow jackets about 100 times over that time. Trip to Walmart was like anarchy. I was like 10 but remember it so well.

I was a kid and honestly slept thru the whole thing. I remember the morning after pretty good tho. Crazy, pine boughs and shit everywhere, i didnt have context at the time but if i saw it now i'd call it like mad max type shit. We couldn't get out of our neighborhood, there were trees down everywhere and people were just wandering around like man aint this some shit. I was in second grade, we didnt go to school for about 3 weeks and didnt have power for 2.5 of those weeks. When we went back the only thing kids wanted to talk about was how many and what kinda trees fell on their house. I felt lucky that my family's shit didn't get wrecked but I felt bad for the half of the class that did

I lived in Raleigh when this happened six trees hit our house one went right through my room where I was sleeping big old oak tree I will never forget that! We were without power for a few weeks! I was an early teen when this hit that night was a nightmare! In the morning I just remember our whole neighborhood like getting together and cutting all the trees with chainsaws we all did our part to clear everything out!

that was one heck of a night but the next week sucked even more i remember the tree dump location on 401 it was a mountain

i remember this very well

Rode it out near Holden Beach NC (Shallotte). Same house we’ve been in for Bertha, Floyd and many others. Always a wild experience

Mainsails rebuilt location would close 1 year after this was posted to youtube.

it was a scary night. the wind was blowing really hard we had a lot of trees

I was 1 and a half when Fran hit north Carolina and my mom said me and my siblings slept through the whole hurricane.

Looks like a repeat this week

Fran was crazy, camp Lejeune was all messed up.

But Crabtree mall still floods

I gotta watch out for these storms that start with f you got Fran Floyd florence

I'm in south NJ. I bought a 5500 watt generator, before Hurricane Sandy hit! I never started it, it's still brand new! Never even used! I'll sell it to you! :) Gosh? Maybe not! I have a feeling I'll be running extension cords to all my neighbors! :) Next time!

I remember it just like the lady said, snap, boom, snap, boom

This is where you need a back-up generator, at least for your fridge/freezer, if not for your bedroom AC!

I can just imaging the trees being blown into my house. It's not a matter of if but a matter of when. I know I will be wishing for a generator and a chain saw

This is what I pray we get back to

4:02 " this is nothing to play with" stands in it just to film pointless video