Trailer Parks Trashed In Indiana
Ruth and I lived there years ago. It’s a nice place with many good people—an Indiana River Town grown large. You could get great Catfish and Hush Puppies. Flags in Indiana are flying at half mast.
Posted by Oink
11/07/2005 at 08:33 AM
Thanks for including this Skipper. These poor folks. We got hit by the same system about an hour and a half after these folks did, which meant they probably got hit around 3 local. With no one expecting this kind of thing in November, they probably weren’t even tuned in for warnings. We got marble and nickle sized hail, but no damage on the cars or roof. But then again the buck I hit on the way to work this morning (who then proceeded to repaint my hood in brown and then hit my windshield may have made up for it............
Hi, Joe! I was born in KY. That buck cost you, what? $300 per pound? That’s what my cousin in Adair County calculated his at—under identical circumstances.
Trailer parks are death traps in tornadoes. ALL should have a shelter and a siren. Unusual for me, but I’d support a law mandating it.
Probably not appropriate, but what-the-hell. Q: What does a Kentucky Tornado and a Kentucky Divorce have in common? A: In either case you lose the trailer.
Posted by Oink
11/07/2005 at 10:50 AM
She’s a Hard Mutha, who neither laughs nor cries, nor does She seem to take special care of us humans. It’s our job to be prepared.
Posted by Oink
11/07/2005 at 11:13 AM
RIIIGGGHHHTTT!
Should be inscribed on many a tombstone.
Posted by Oink
11/07/2005 at 12:47 PM
Me too Bob. Also dug a storm shelter-- no small feat in a limestone quarry. Why people ignore obvious threats to their survival? To paraphrase a quote about Freedom:
The price of survival is eternal vigilance.
The price of eternal vigilance is boredom.Posted by Oink
11/07/2005 at 09:07 PM
Frankly I blame my son. He and his family just moved to Indiana about a month ago. They live about 15 miles from Evansville. Fortunately they are all right.
Denephew: Seriously, glad to hear it. Who’d ever expect a big tornado in Indiana in November? Has happened, but very, very rarely. They are second only to earthquakes for the unannounced, terrifying GOTCHA!
Posted by Oink
11/08/2005 at 10:10 AM
I want to slap anyone who makes the “its a sign of global warming” comment. Tornadoes happen in November. Tornadoes happen year around. All of this weather stuff has happened before and our records cover just too short a period of time for them to be definative.
On Novemeber 15, 1973 at 4:17AM a tornado ripped the roof and one corner off of our house in East Alton, Il. which is across the river and to the north of St. Louis. There was no alarm and we never made it to the basement. It is only by the grace of God that none of us got more than a scratch.
It left a 5 mile long skipping path of damage from Wood River thru East Alton and on to the northwest. No one was killed, but several were injured (no trailer parks were hit, thus no fatalities).
Anyone who lives in a mobile home anywhere not high up in the mountains or out in the deserts of Nevada, Arizona, and New Mexico is insane.
