Saturday’s storms and tornadoes touched the campus and ripped through the city and state; the destruction killed 22 people in North Carolina and caused enough damage to Shaw University for the president of the university to close it for the rest of the semester.

Here are some testimonials describing the storm’s impact from members of the University community:

Dave Greene was at the College of Veterinary Medicine on Hillsborough Street when the sirens went off before the tornado touched down Saturday afternoon. He remembers it got very dark, and then he couldn’t see 25 yards out of the window from the rain and hail.

“The structures [at the college] and the cows in the pasture were undamaged,” Greene, the director of college relations at the College of Veterinary Medicine, said. This wasn’t the case for all the animals, though.

After the storm, horses came in from two farms in Sanford, N.C., where there was major damage.

“You can imagine the trauma of loading up frightened, injured horses and then driving them in a trailer,” Greene said.

Companion and equine veterinary students worked together to treat all the incoming animals quickly.

“Our staff did an amazing job handling the situation, but that is what they are supposed to do,” Greene said. “They have their tools all lined up when the horses arrived.”

Some horses were treated and will recover; others had to be put down. Due to privacy laws, the number of horses or their owners’ names could not be released.