[AT] Disastrous weather...

[charlie hill]

Farmer I'm sure you're out and gone by now this morning.  I hope you find 
your property and all the folks in good shape.  It's hot and dry here, quite 
a contrast from what you folks in the Mid-west have been getting.
About the only thing going on around here is a peat fire (ground is burning) 
2 counties to the N/E of here.

Hang in there.  Let us know what happened.

Charlie
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Indiana Robinson" <robinson at svs.net>
To: "Antique tractor email discussion group" <at at lists.antique-tractor.com>
Sent: Wednesday, June 04, 2008 1:57 AM
Subject: [AT] Disastrous weather...


> As I type this it is about 45 minutes past midnight.
> A couple of hours ago Central Indiana was awash with
> weather alerts and from what I could tell from the TV
> news at one point there may have been as many as 8 or
> more tornadoes active. There were also some severe
> straight line winds. The weather service reported 3500
> lighting strikes in a very short time in just one
> small storm cell north west of here. Our farm was
> spared even though some of the tornado activity
> (moving west to east) was first spotted from a tiny
> village (Prescott IN) less than 2 miles east of us. We
> heard the city's (Shelbyville IN) tornado siren and
> started monitoring the weather. One of our daughters
> lives in a small town (Waldron IN) about 6 miles south
> east of us. The last we heard from her they were
> headed to the basement. The power and phone lines are
> about all down there yet but we know that they are
> looking for shelter for about 11 families tonight due
> to home damage and lots of trees down. There are no
> reported injuries there.
> Now for the one that has me worried...
> We just rented a house in a small village (Moscow IN)
> in the the next county to a family with 5 kids. Our
> property there includes 17 acres that runs across the
> back of the village and on both sides of a very long
> covered bridge often claimed to be Indiana's longest
> covered bridge. Tonight the sheriff's dept. in that
> county tells me that the bridge is totally
> destroyed... Our rental house is only about 200' from
> the bridge. I'm very concerned about that family but
> could find out little. The authorities were doing a
> house to house when I talked to them and while there
> were 5 reported injuries in the community they said
> that only one from the village was sent to the
> hospital and she didn't believe that it was someone
> from our house. We also have very good long time
> friends that live only about 80' from the bridge and
> more that live a few hundred feet further away. The TV
> news folks were standing by and talking with people
> that had serious home damage outside of town but the
> news folks couldn't get into the town yet due to trees
> down and downed wires. About all I can do now is wait
> for daylight and hope that they found shelter if
> needed. I was going over there tomorrow anyway since I
> have been doing some work on the house. The bathroom
> hot water faucet was leaking and it was an older
> odd-ball sink and faucet set. I finally decided to buy
> a new sink top and faucet set that was current and
> just replace the whole thing. I bought them today but
> now I have to wait to see if there is anything left to
> attach it to... About all I could see in the news
> chopper footage was the church, a lot of flashing red
> and blue lights and a big industrial loader (probably
> from the stone quarry at the edge of town) pushing
> downed trees out of the way.
> The frustrating part now is not knowing if I am
> dealing with minor damage or total destruction of the
> house. If it is unlivable I will need to see if there
> is anything I can do to help them find a place to
> live... I know that we can scrape up a batch of
> clothes for the kids if needed and a number of other
> things but we won''t know about needs (or if they have
> any needs at all) until tomorrow morning.
> Most frustrating. ..
>
>
> You guys in Ohio better "duck and cover". The radar map is a mess...
>
>
>
>
> -- 
>
>
> "farmer"
>
>
> "Everything that can be invented has been invented."
>   -- Charles Duell, Commissioner of US Patent Office, 1899
>
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>
> Francis Robinson
> Central Indiana, USA
> robinson at svs.net
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