Salisbury businesses rebuilding after EF-1 tornado

In Salisbury, business owners are left picking up the pieces,after severe weather ripped through the city.

"It sounded like a freight train , huge freight train coming through the store. By the time I looked out the window, it was a cloud of debris, shingles, tile flowing around," says Buzz Carragher, the President of Salisbury Cycle & Fitness.

Carragher was working inside this bike shop when an EF-1 tornado touched down in Salisbury.

There was water leaking down the walls, and some ceiling tiles have come," says Carragher.

Carragher tells us the biggest damage was part of the signage being blown off, but he considers himself one of the luckier businesses. Just a few doors down it was a different story for Aerus Electrolux.

"My wife was here and she called me on the phone, and ceilings were falling, people were running from store to store over here to help her ," says Eugene Abbott, one of the managers at Aerus Electrolux.

The manager admits it's difficult seeing this business in rough shape. However,  he's optimistic that this business will be able to bounce back.

"We want the business to really flourish after this," says Abbott.