Tornado
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@kjayhawks Yes she does. Just sent her a PM since she hasn’t posted an update in over 10 hrs.
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Mother nature found me and whooped my butt. I lost my shed. half of my privacy fence, a tree limb fell on my old Blue Truck, and she topped it off by ripping the big bay window on the front of my house out. Yea she is some kind of special gal.
It’s all good though. No loved ones hurt.
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Material things can be replaced, people cannot. Good to hear you are all safe and hopefully insurance will cover the material loses, if not, we can have a bucketeer’s shed raising, fence fixing party.
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@DoubleDD oh no! Truck totaled?
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Nah, nothing a little body work won’t take care of. First things first. It’s still March and I have no window on the front of my house.
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I’m at home! Kept vigil til 3. Car still packed, brought suitcase in. Most neighbors aren’t at work but here. Winds down for now.
blackhawk w/water
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How are you doing? Are you back at home? Any damage?
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@JayHawkFanToo stayed home!
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Nice wind chime.
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@Crimsonorblue22 Blackhawk doing its thing a bit close, to my eye! Glad you’re okay. Must have been a restful sleep. Is there a lot of smoke where you are, or are the winds keeping it away?
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@mayjay smoke was awful last night! My clothes reek of it. Had to cover my mouth going outside. I have asthma too. Today it’s clear. The fire is to the north which would be left in that pic. 30 homes destroyed. Wind starting to pick up.
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@mayjay you were being sarcastic about sleep!
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Hopefully all the rain we got will make more fires unlikely.
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@JayHawkFanToo rain? What rain? None here my friend.
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Ouch, we did get heavy rain only for a short period of time but enough to get thing wet.
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@DoubleDD Good to hear about loved ones. Everything else is replaceable/fixable. Besides, we need your positive outlook during the games.
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@Crimsonorblue22 said:
@mayjay you were being sarcastic about sleep!
I can’t imagine what going to bed with that uncertainty was like. I know that people a few years back went to bed with wildfires some 50 mile away near San Diego and woke up to evacuations. I hope you and your neighbors have a mutual alert system.
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@brooksmd she up voted my post so she’s prob okay. I live about 25 miles north of hutch and a few miles east, the smoke was terrible yesterday with the wind blowing it in.
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@mayjay my son said it was good we put in new smoke alarms and I should sleep. I was like if it’s my house…
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What is burning and where? They haven’t talked about it on the news here at all.
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@wissox ks!
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@wissox said:
What is burning and where? They haven’t talked about it on the news here at all.
Unfortunately not a lot of city names.
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@wissox Good article from Eagle
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Updated fire map
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Unfortunately I have cattle by Ashland. I hope I still have cattle tomorrow.
Engelwood population 76 has burned to the ground.
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@globaljaybird I have a niece in Oskaloosa, Another niece like about 5 miles West of lake Perry On K-4? is that the right hwy? - And then My sister lives in Meriden. — ROCK CHALK ALL DAY LONG BABY
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@dylans One of my customers (from Protection, Ks) knew a rancher that lost @ one million dollars worth of Angus cattle… Hope yours are ok!
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@nuleafjhawk Garner Angus ranch? Very nice stock. I heard their ranch burned down. I believe they are the #1 Angus bull producers in the US
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Awful news!
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@dylans Sure could be - my customer didn’t give me a name. It’s too bad about the cattle (and all the other animals that couldn’t flee), but thank God there’s been very few human lives lost. I’ve actually only heard of one - a trucker that jackknifed and got stuck and was overcome with smoke inhalation. Terrible.
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@nuleafjhawk 4-5 in the Texas panhandle died. Ranch hands and a firefighter
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@nuleafjhawk So many reminders of how there are so much more important things than basketball. We act like it is everything, but it is just a game. A huge distraction when we might need it most, though!
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Not much in the news about all of this nationally.
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@wissox flyover state. No one cares about us.
@nuleafjhawk I’m a two hour drive from Clark county, but I can see the smoke plume from here.
Thankfully we have a wonderful helper that has managed to put together a crew of 5 water trucks and a roadgrader to stop the fire on the edge of our heifer pasture. Whew!
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@dylans national news now
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Some pics of the fire damage.
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@JayHawkFanToo For 9 yrs we lived at 133rd North of the ex airport, then the past 12 yrs 5 mi South of it off 199th. Evidently one entire hanger full of airplanes was completely demolished. Literally hundreds of homes damaged in Oak Grove also, Yep you dodged some heavy artillery.
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@kjayhawks Clark co?
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@Crimsonorblue22 not sure
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@globaljaybird
Very lucky and blessed, indeed.
