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Bad storm...
« on: August 14, 2007 - 06:52:31 PM »
We had a major storm last night.  2 miles away at our airport 93 mph winds were recorded, straight line.  The red barn is my Aunt and Uncles, we helped clean up there some today.  The other places are within a few miles of us.  We had almost no damage, just a few shingles off the milkhouse that we fixed today.  No one was hurt, thank the Lord.  Where those barns all went down, there is pretty much no crop left, everything is stripped to the ground.  Bad night last night.    :walkaway:





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Re: Bad storm...
« Reply #1 on: August 14, 2007 - 06:58:36 PM »
Hope everybody is OK... sorry about the destruction to your families property... :-[
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Re: Bad storm...
« Reply #2 on: August 14, 2007 - 07:01:26 PM »
Man that is a shame, and a big mess. Very lucky no one was hurt through all that. That is a lot of damage for straight line winds. Any livestock killed or other machinery damaged?

You live in central Wisconsin? The level to mild rolling hills remind me of the Wisconsin Rapids / Stevens Point area........?
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Re: Bad storm...
« Reply #3 on: August 14, 2007 - 09:30:46 PM »
Glad to hear everyone is OK.
You guys have some work cut out for you.
Unbelievable how the weather can turn so fast.
How much hail did you guys wind getting the other nite when we talked?







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Re: Bad storm...
« Reply #4 on: August 14, 2007 - 10:42:33 PM »
 :22yikes:
Man, that had to be a huge storm!!
Glad you're OK.
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Re: Bad storm...
« Reply #5 on: August 14, 2007 - 11:14:34 PM »
WSM, I live in west central WI, about 30 miles east of St. Paul.  We are really flat at our house, but at my Aunt and Uncles, about 20 miles away, then the rolling hills start and continue all the way across the state.  Stevens Point area is beautiful, my friends go to school there. 

Vin, the night I talked to you wasnt that bad at all.  They really hyped it up.  Last night was unreal.  I looked out the kitchen window and the trees were about a third of the way down from the wind.  Dad checked the corn tonight now, and he said it is stripped.  Bummer.  Huge trees have been uprooted, 3 feet around.   :walkaway:

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Re: Bad storm...
« Reply #6 on: August 15, 2007 - 03:59:31 AM »
Not cool , where I live we had very powerful winds in the winter , kept tossing tractor trailers over on the highway

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Re: Bad storm...
« Reply #7 on: August 15, 2007 - 09:18:07 AM »
Hope you guys come out OK! The wife works for XCEL and said most of the crews from here are in the Twin Cities helping out. This Sunday Brainard got hit and they are to go there next.
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Re: Bad storm...
« Reply #8 on: August 15, 2007 - 10:51:59 AM »
Yeah mother nature can be brutal . . . sorry to hear about the destruction. 

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Re: Bad storm...
« Reply #9 on: August 15, 2007 - 11:27:24 AM »
Hope you guys come out OK! The wife works for XCEL and said most of the crews from here are in the Twin Cities helping out. This Sunday Brainard got hit and they are to go there next.
i was up there for the NHRA nationals over the weekend and that storm hit between 1:30 am-5:00am sunday morning.it was a pretty powerful storm to say the least.we were sitting in my buddies garage around 3:00 am watching it when a bolt of lightining hit close and the boom knocked stuff of the walls.it was pretty wicked there for a while.sunday cleared up and it was a awesome day for the NHRA FINALS.  :bananasmi
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Re: Bad storm...
« Reply #10 on: August 15, 2007 - 11:35:05 AM »
Glad no one was hurt..........    :2thumbs:   
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Re: Bad storm...
« Reply #11 on: August 15, 2007 - 12:10:18 PM »
 :faint:   Glad to hear no one was hurt
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Re: Bad storm...
« Reply #12 on: August 15, 2007 - 12:20:02 PM »
Wow, we had some wind last night to the far eastern part of the state, but nothing like that.  Glad everyone's alright and that sucks about the damage to everyone's crop over there.
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Re: Bad storm...
« Reply #13 on: August 15, 2007 - 01:07:20 PM »
Glad no one was hurt.  Hope everyone recovers ok form the damage!
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Re: Bad storm...
« Reply #14 on: August 15, 2007 - 07:05:56 PM »
I'm hoping since the Viper came home around the same time as the storm it is OK!!
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