I imagine that had to be somewhat terrifying. Hopefully, the recovery
won't be too bad.
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Ken Norton wrote:
>> P.S. Where is the "safe room"?
>>
> Where he keeps his 3Ti and certain high dollar lenses. Bill Barber
>
>
> Well, in this particular case, said items were NOT in the safe room. Our
> safe room is the bathroom on the main floor. I have no illusion that our
> condos would survive an F5 tornado, and we'd be lucky to have a slab of
> concrete left. We had plans to build a darkroom in part of the garage (long
> story), which would also be built to survival-room standards.
>
> Fortunately we had no glass breakage. Next to one of the windows was a large
> stack of completed 11x14 prints...
>
> Within a block of the condos, there is probably close to 20 trees down. As
> we live on the edge of town the houses, barns and other buildings that had
> no protective vegetation to slow things down were destroyed or heavily
> damaged. There's this one barn that is now leaning about 30 degrees over,
> but it's the only one that survived at that farm. Within a 500m circle,
> there are at least two houses with no roofs, and several garages completely
> flattened.
>
> Driving to work today, what I did find fascinating was that our place was
> almost exactly at the dividing line where the significant damage went
> south-to-north and north-to-south. Those of you familiar with supercells can
> understand the significance of that. :O
>
> We did get some damage to electronics when the power went off. My guess is
> that we got a hefty spike when it went out. I don't know what all is fried
> yet, but I counted three things so far.
>
> That hail and windstorm was deafening--the loudest I've ever experienced.
>
> But we got off very easy.
>
> AG
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