[AT] Disastrous weather...

Mattias Kessén davidbrown950 at gmail.com
Wed Jun 4 16:10:30 PDT 2008


Charlie and the bunch, If you follow that link and go to Sweden you
will see an old picture of Valdemarsvik the closest "town" to where I
live.

Mattias

2008/6/4 charlie hill <chill8 at suddenlink.net>:
> Farmer, here is a link to a discussion about your bridge over on
> AllisChalmers.com.
>
> http://www.allischalmers.com/forum/forum_view.asp?mid=767558&mtop=967558&mtext1=&morder=pdate&page=1&mnext=-1
>
> 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
>>
>>
>> Hay & Straw Exchange (Buy it, sell it and trade it.)
>> http://finance.groups.yahoo.com/group/HayandStrawExchange
>>
>>
>> Francis Robinson
>> Central Indiana, USA
>> robinson at svs.net
>> _______________________________________________
>> AT mailing list
>> http://www.antique-tractor.com/mailman/listinfo/at
>
> _______________________________________________
> AT mailing list
> http://www.antique-tractor.com/mailman/listinfo/at
>



More information about the AT mailing list