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[BBIGG BLOCK 396]

Well $3100.00 sounds CHEAP to me when you need POWER for MORNING COFFEE! I have been looking at systens to run the WHOLE HOUSE and run on propane also.So I think I am going to splurge and get me one before it is too late! Glad to hear everything is fine and you guys in the storms path are doing OK!

[budnate]

we need them often up hear, Mom has a Home Depot Generac 5500w, with a brigs motor on it, sips the fuel and works great half a pull and she is going. I bought a Honda 7500w elec start, I back fead into the house, shop, works great, sips the fuel,

we have a 4000w colman to, mo fo sounds like a lear jet running and drinks fuel like its hooked to a tanker truck that one is a backup only pos.

a guy has to lose power for a few days once in awhile and have to live like a cave man to appreciate how nice things are,lol.

[ORIGLS6]

Well, we knew it was comin. When the temps go from 12° to 72° in just a couple of days you know you're gonna have trouble. Severe storms and tornadoes all the way from Oklahoma through Springfield, MO up to Kenosha.

I drove home in the worst rain and wind I've seen in years. No damage at home but I'm hearing bad reports from the Springfield, MO and Boone County, IL areas.

How about some reports from you guys in those areas. Let us know everyone's OK.

[kwhizz]

We were a couple of miles from the Damage....But...another member here ...Gary...(Gwawa) had the building behind his house lose it's roof and a Garage across the sreet from him is gone, Gary seems to have gotten away without any Damage (His Generator is getting a workout though) but the rest of the houses on his street did not come out so well......Lots of Damage.....TV Crews are there filming the Damage along with Helicopters filming from the Air......Tornado went right thru and skipped his house and Garage full of Cars........Waiting for the News to come on and see the damage as the Neighborhood is Blocked off............

Ken

[ORIGLS6]

Keep us posted. Hope everyone is OK. I saw Ray Morrison was on a few minutes ago so I'll assume he's good. How about you other guys in Southern Missouri?

Still some lightning and rumbling here so it looks like there's more to come.

[Xplantdad]

Wow...hope everyone is okay!

Ken, let us know what you find out about Gary...

[kwhizz]

Here are a couple of Pic's I took of the Sky just as it was getting dark while all the Air Raid Sirens were going off..........







Ken

[Xplantdad]

They have video running on the weather channel now...along with a still photo of the twister from a college in Kenosha

[Mr70]

Glad your safe Ken.
Around mid day they showed a Tornado touched down in Poplar Grove,Il.and was then making it's way Northeast to Kenosha Co.
I kept thinking,"what of the Mars Cheese Factory?".
They kept saying,"if you live in Kenosha,you'll soon wish you didn't".

[Chevy454]

Folks around Springfield, MO had a long, long night...last I heard were a couple of confirmed deaths, but they were still digging through lots of rubble. Took the roof clean off one of the schools in Republic, and lots of other schools in the area are closed due to damage...numerous seperate tornadoes on the ground, lots of baseball size and bigger hail...bad, bad, bad. I keep a close eye on Springfield, as my eldest daughter lives there with her mother.

Stayed pretty much west of us, though, as we just got the straight line gusts and rain/hail...hit here around 4:30am...sounded like a freight train coming across the bottom field...never heard anything like it, just a slow build of wind & noise over about 20 seconds, and then all heck broke loose. About 1/2 between our house and town a guy lost the roof off one of his shops and one end of it, framing and all, was gone, with a lot of it lieing on top of the garage next to it...they kept saying on the radio early this morning that a shop building south of Alton had lost it's roof, so everyone was calling to see if it was ours!
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