Buck -

Let me know if you need help with a chain saw. I'd be glad to give you a day of free labor....

As for our weather, just a tiny bit of hail. No damage though.

Kell and I were on our way back from KC when we ducked into a gas station just missing hail. We decided to bail out of the car when it stated to move around while sitting still and the rain was horizontal.

Sonya's Mom is the Post Master in Twin Oaks, OK. She had a call that night that the post office roof was in the highway out front of the building. I we left Grove at midnight with a truckload of storage containers to salvage what we could. After waiting for the power to get cut to the lines down across the road, we made it to the post office to find a loader pushing the entire roof structure to the side of the road. To our amazement - the building had an old flat roof under the one the blew off. No interier damage what-so-ever!

Unfortunately - they (Highway Patrol, firefighter and residents) where searching for 5 missing people in the nearby fields and in the debris piles.


Twin Oaks and Colcord had A LOT of damage.

Here's a few pics I took yesterday evening at my parents house. I got there a little late to get any good daytime pics. Sorry about that.

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All in all they my parents were one of the lucky ones. Nothing that can't be cleaned up or repaired with a little time. No one was hurt. All is good.

Others didn't fair so well.

After listening to them talk about it and looking at the damage it looks to me like the tornado lifted off the ground prior to hitting their place. I don't think it was touched down. Dad said it sucked REAL hard on the house three times almost taking the whole house the third time. If it had been on the ground I think things would have been A LOT different.

He said the last time he saw it she was on the ground. That was about 1,500 or so yards from the house when he decided it was go time. He also said there was a small one that wasn't yet on the ground to the north of this one.

All is good...

Buck

Buck, I think that was the same storm that came into Mo. and across Table Rock. We went into Branson for dinner and had to wait for the snow plows to get the hail off the roads. In some places there was 5-6 in. of hail on the road, down the road one mile there was none. It flipped 2 docks over about a quarter mile from my house and the wind hardly blew at my house. Hope everyones o.k