[AT] Scary wind damage.

[Phil Vorwerk - UCU Inc]

Those of you that have been on the list a while may remember back about 10
years ago when we had all the storm damage in southern Minnesota.  At the
end of March a pretty good sized tornado touched down for over 40 miles,
wiping out Comfrey, damaging farms, then finally passing through St Peter
and causing a great deal of damage there.  That prompted me to visit my
insurance agent to make sure the building that housed our business (7500 SF,
2 story commercial building) was sufficiently insured.  (we did up the
coverage quite a bit.)  In July of that same year we had "straight line
winds" that went over 110 mph.  The winds blew a large garage door off its
tracks on the lower level of our building, which pressurized the building,
lifting the bar joists off the rear wall and folding the entire roof in half
on top of itself.  All hvac, plumbing, electrical etc was strung through the
bar joists, so it basically totaled the building.  We rode that out in the
middle of the day in the compressor room.  When I opened the door to let
everyone out of the compressor room I could see daylight coming down the
stairwell.  Not a good sign.

Anyway, St. Peter got hit by those winds pretty hard also, but the weather
service said that what we experienced was not a tornado, but simply straight
line winds.  They can still do a ton of damage.

Phil
Courtland, MN

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Subject: Re: [AT] Scary wind damage.

Indiana Robinson wrote:
> In the wee hours of Wednesday morning I was awakened by the sound of
> fierce wind and driving rain. We don't usually hear much of those
<snip>
> I guess I will feed the horses this morning and then move the old
> tractors to safety and start figuring out where to start on getting
> that barn stabilized before the next spring storm.
> 
> 

 Well, from the description I would say you had a tornado touch down or
a VERY severe micro-burst storm.

-- 
Steve Williams
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