Ca storm

[ORIGLS6]

But you guys are all OK?

[Chevy454]

Yep, everything 'ok' that I know of...got a couple more of our buildings to check out, but can't be anything major. I do know some of the railroad guys had to go out early to Willow Springs and fix some damage, but haven't gotten details on *what* though...Willow Springs would be about 1/2 hour north of Ray Morrison.

[ORIGLS6]

[Chevy454]

Just heard on the radio, and checked the radar...looks like we're gonna get some more this morning...not as serious, but more wind & hail...is this January or July?!

[Denis]

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Be Careful Denis...........9 months after the New York City Blackout the Birthrate went up......Looks like you are in the same situation.......EH!!! Good Luck with the Snow Blower.......Ken

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Hey Ken. Never mind the birthrate. Here in the Sierras, people start eating each other when it snows too much!

Self-respecting Canadians don't need no snowblower...this is but a 'dusting' of snow...

[Chevy454]

Welp, Kat & I stopped by our buddy's shops that got hit...he got hit in a bad way. He runs a home/auto HVAC business in the smaller shop in front, and his 2 sons run an autobody business out of the bigger shop directly behind...anyway, half the big shop is gone, and the majority of his smaller shop is gone...I shouldn't say "gone", as a lot of it is in tree tops down across the holler. You can see the path from across the highway, over his place, and on across the next ridge...across the highway from his place is a creek feeds the creek in our bottom field, so I'm guessing that locomotive sound around 4:30am was the wind that wrecked his place, I'd say the sound was traveling down the creek/holler. Another house between his house and mine has part of the roof gone also.

Coulda been worse, our buddy and his wife live in a trailer house not more than 25 feet from the shop, and his elderly mother lives in another small house about 20 feet on the other side of him, but they weren't touched...no insurance on the shops, though.

[ORIGLS6]

Bad deal, but understandable. Small businesses in small towns have a tough time and insurance costs eat heavily into the bottom line. Probably much more common than many of us realize.
Tough to look on the bright side when you're dealing with something like this but they DID escape unharmed. I'm betting the community steps up to help them rebuild and keep going. That's small town America at it's best.

[Chevy454]

Welp, even though the National Weather Service never put us in a watch/warning, they *officially* declared that it was an indeed a tornado that tore up the shop & houses just up the road from us...one of 29 in southern Missouri that evening!