On 08/18/2010 12:57 PM, Gene Heskett wrote: > Yup. One of the neighbors down at the bottom of our street is a volunteer > fireman, and has a recording anemometer in his back yard, which said 112 mph > when it was uncovered. A black willow came down and covered it up, but it > was not otherwise damaged. > > It came down the hill at the back (western end) of our little natural cul- > de-sac, about 30-40 yeards wide, busting off mature trees 10-15 feet up in > the air and generally followed a zig-zag track down the middle, jumped the > west fork river and took about half the roof off the stockyards, totally > demolished 3 houses on the other side of the river& generally left a trail > of destruction clear to the top of the hill and kept going here and there > for a good 8 or 10 miles on east. > > They won't call it a tornado cause it was more or less straight line winds, > but 3 people did report seeing a funnel cloud over on the east side of the > river. I faired better than most, I got to keep 2 of the 5 trees we had, a > 25 year old, 60 foot pin oak, and one of 4 30 year old 50 foot pines. They > were slightly damaged, but will likely recover. On down the block, several > trees of similar size just tipped their root balls out of the ground, and > TBT, I am amazed that pin oak, whose wood is about rockwell 55, didn't do > exactly that. One of my pines wound up on the next door neighbors roof, > and a steel yard building catty-wumpus across my back fence& beyond the > shop buiilding was picked up right off its flooring and dumped in the area > above& behind the neighbors carport on the other side of me. and did it > without breaking through an 8 foot privacy fence less than 4 feet from > where it stood. I lost a shadowbox end of the back deck, a strip of siding > was gashed, and some shingles left plus there was evidence that something > had slid the length of my roof, which may have been that yard building. > But from there to where it landed is a straight line through the one pine > tree that survived, damaged 15 feet up, some limbs were broken. > > I have been told by the neighbors that when I get done with the fencing and > such, next is going to be a cold bar and some park benches under that pin > oak, cause I have the only shade tree left on our side of the block. And > it just might happen yet, its a heck of a good place to have a neighborhood > meeting over a cold one. ;-) > > We have BIG piles of stuff being burnt daily yet as folks are cleaning up. > So we have lots of smoke& ash in the air& will have the rest of the > summer I expect. The hill on the far side of Butchers Lane probably has > 200 cords of firewood down on it, but the landowner reposted it. That > includes several nice cherry trees I could use, but he thinks its worth > $10/bdft laying there, so it will be just firewood next year. He did manage > to sell a walnut log I would have liked, about 30" thick, but apparently > the cherry (its 14 to 18" thick) is gonna lay there and check full length. > Sad. A waste of some of mother natures better stuff. Sigh... Glad to hear there was nothing more than property damage. All that stuff flying around could have caused some serious injuries. Didn't hurt any of the machinery, did it?
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