I understand that Howard and Moline got hit hard with the storm this morning. The Westar service man told me when he fix our outage after 6 hours that most of the Independence crew and others were working in that area because of the storm. I don't see very many posting from there today.
Electricity came on about 20 minutes ago.
I left town about 7:45 this morning, apparently just as the electricity went off. Got back about 30 minutes before it came back on.
We had just been talking about having made it through the winter without any major outages.
Spring is a different matter! :D ;D :D ;D :D
The power went off in Howard right before 8 a.m. and came back on around 6:40 pm. Hooray for the Westar team of hard-working folks to get us back online so quickly. We were fully expecting to be without power until sometime tomorrow. The storm was pretty impressive and caused considerable damage, especially in the southern part of town. Outbuildings, sheet metal, fences and anything not staked down went sailing. I can't say for sure, but I guessed it to be a microburst or straight-line winds, about 70 mph. A TV crew was in town today, but of course, without electricity, we couldn't watch ourselves on TV ??? :P The good news is no people were injured, although a goat was killed when a building collapsed on it. :(
It seems nobody was hurt but some buildings and roofs were rearranged.Still true? .
One building, a large barn type, was completely destroyed. The metal siding from it was strung across a couple of blocks. Some trees were down. I was lucky enough to not be in it. It was several blocks south and east of me. My granddaughter, however, lives almost next door to it. She came over to check on me later and said that she heard something terrific and got her kids into the bathroom because it didn't sound like there was time to seek any other shelter. She then took pictures with her telephone of the damage. We went to Eureka this evening and viewed the damage on our way out of town and on our way back into town. Lots of smaller damage, too. Sure glad to get the electric back on. I don't do so good without it.
There was a lot of property damage...from just north of Moline - then northeast through Howard.
We were very blessed that there was no personal injuries.
I'm sooooo glad nobody was hurt.Well except the goat. That was a shame too. Hope that's your share for the season.
I glad to hear there wasn't anybody hurt and that you have electricity back.
...And thats why I live in Grenola!! Rain and wind but no damage, power was out for about 30seconds. Glad nobody was hurt in Howard.
Here in Moline, we were without power until about 4:30PM. Outside of some tree damage and stuff blown around, the most damage I saw was the flag poles at the cemetary. The west part of the cemetary lost quite a few poles, and many are leaning at a 45 degree angle; they look like the siberian forest that was exposed to the meteor explosion. I understand that those in the Catholic cemetary fared no better. I had to do some mopping here at home, as I forgot to close the bathroom window the night before the storm. As that room is on the west side of the house, it really got wet in there as a result of that wind. No real damage though.
I have with me temporarily a four year old and an 18 month old. Madison and Jadin. We were having breakfast when the elect. went off. It being dark, out came the flash light and then the kerosene lamp. I was explaining to the 4 yr. old what the lamp was and how it was used when WHAM, without any warning whatsoever, things started hitting the house and the most gosh awful noise, and the children were petrified. I calmly picked up the little one and told Jadin let's go to grandma's bedroom where it would be quieter and away we went. course by that time it was just raining. He peaked through the drapes to the outside and I was devestated, but couldn't show it. When we returned to the rest of the house, I looked out my front door and where there had been a new flag flying and porch furniture, was NOTHING. My wonderful neighbors, the Simmons', were outside gathering up their blown belongings and they found my furniture and cushions, and the flag. They were scattered all over from here to the east. The only real damage is several shingles gone from the roof and a lot of limbs and sticks throughout the yard. Oh, yeah, my rain gauge was shattered. Could have been much wose, and I never want to hear that horrible sound again.
I'm so glad it wasn't any worse.
P.S. The front door being open at the time, lamps were blown over in the living room and the carpet in front of the door for about 6 feet was soaked. The front storm door was also "sprung" but still working.
I am so glad everyone is okay and you weren't without electric for too long. Nothing like little ones to keep one from reacting to the fear.
My grandmother's 'barn' and my brother's garage-shop were both blew down and are at complete loss. We are still waiting on insurance before we start the clean up of my Grandma's barn, but we are already cleaning up my brother's shed. A lot of tin and wood to be scrapped. We are extremely lucky. My brother was looking out his window when this huge piece of 'roofing' came flying at his house. He had a couple of branches puncture into his house.
More pictures;
Thanks Heather,I was hoping someone would post some photos.
We just returned home from Howard and drove around to view the damage. It had to have been a twister because of how the tin was strung and trees were twisted. It looked like a bomb had gone off in some of the areas.
A friend of ours said she started to leave for work and could not open her door because of the suction. Another friend was fishing and said it was so dark he had to turn on his head lights to tie a jig on and then decided to go home.
Also it took the side of the buildings but left the roof. Look like Topeka, KS in 1966.
Quote from: Diane Amberg on April 02, 2010, 07:41:57 PM
I'm sooooo glad nobody was hurt.Well except the goat. That was a shame too. Hope that's your share for the season.
I am trying to figure out the part about the goat. Was there a goat hurt???
Yes one goat was crushed like the witch in oz. Barn fell on it.
The way I understood details about the goat. A building fell on the goat and the goat did not survive. Like the witch in the Wizard of Oz, with its feet sticking out from under the bulding. 8)
only the feet weren't red. ;D ;D ;D
and the legs probably didn't disappear back under the barn. ;)
Sorry, friend goat.....................
Did they give it to somebody so he'd have some meat? Around here that wouldn't have gone to waste!