Tornado
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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.
