[AT] Disastrous weather...

[Mattias Kessén]

Hang in there, Hope it will work out fine for you. It makes our dry
weather with forestfires seem kind of harmless. I'm still glad we
don't get your kind of weather.

Mattias

2008/6/4 Indiana Robinson <robinson at svs.net>:
> 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...
>
>
>
>
> --
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> "farmer"
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> Francis Robinson
> Central Indiana, USA
> robinson at svs.net
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