Friday's Internet Edition, September 10, 2010.
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| Randy McDaniel questions the county’s plans for funding a second high school campus at a meeting last fall. The state later denied that funding request. - Photo by Robin Snow |
One of the “Three Musketeers,” Randy McDaniel, 54, was a hard-charging baseball player in his youth who played all nine positions for one team. He played for Appalachian State and returned to his native Davie to work at and eventually take over his father’s used car and lawn and garden shop — within sight of Davie High.
Hurricane Hugo altered everything.
The big wind in September 1989 blew over trees behind his neighbor’s home on Bethel Church Road. His neighbor was in no shape to cut them. On April 11, 1990, Randy carried his chainsaw, wedge and sledgehammer over to do the work.
Across the Carolinas, those downed trees packed unexpected and violent surprises for loggers. The tree trunks, coiled like springs, bucked when cut.
A big oak’s trunk jumped on McDaniel, knocked him down and squatted fully on his pelvis.
He would never run the bases again. That he lived remains a ... subscribe to the Davie County Enterprise, P.O. Box 4639, Salisbury, N.C. 28145.