[AT] Disastrous weather...

[Mattias Kessén]

It sure is beutiful I've spent most of the day in the archipelaggio in
this beatiful weather we had the last weeks.

2008/6/5 charlie hill <chill8 at suddenlink.net>:
> Mattias, that is beautiful country.  I'd surely like to get over there and
> visit sometime.  I'll have to put that on my bucket list right under getting
> a passport.
>
> Charlie
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> From: "charlie hill" <chill8 at suddenlink.net>
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>
> Thanks Mattias, I'll check it out.
>
> Charlie
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Mattias Kessén" <davidbrown950 at gmail.com>
> To: "Antique tractor email discussion group" <at at lists.antique-tractor.com>
> Sent: Wednesday, June 04, 2008 7:10 PM
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>
>> 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"
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>>> 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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