their way back to this, the seventh or eighth largest city in north carolina. reporter: yeah, exactly that, david. folks starting to make their ways back as the bands make their way through. what they re greeted with is this. trees down in the middle of the road. the crews can t get to these houses. you see here, this house. this is charlie s house. we ll talk to charlie in just a minute. had this big tree come in and this is the damage we re talking about. this is the risk of why you leave this storm. if you follow me, we ll go right with charlie. hey, charlie. thanks for doing this. i really appreciate it. show us your house. show us the damage so people can get a sense. you were here during the storm. you actually moved you said to a fire house? yeah. we evacuated across from the fire house downtown. we were worried about the wind speeds and how long the wind would be here. and we were worried about the trees falling on our house and it actually happened. you can see here, dav