Tuesday, March 8, 2016

:: Tornado ::

My Uncle Jon told me I should do a post about a tornado that touched down on Wednesday, February 24th in White Horse which is about 5 miles from our house. The last location of the tornado's path was on a road that is only 2 miles from our house! No one was injured but there was lots of damage done.  By the crack of dawn on Thursday morning there were hundreds of Amish already out helping clean up!  Lots of local Amish business donated their time and resources to help clean up and rebuild. 
  
 
This is what was left of two chicken houses...
  
  
 

 Over 32,000 laying hens were loaded into a tractor trailer after their barn was destroyed.
Joshua actually helped in this chicken assembly line.
  
 
 
 This house is across from the chicken houses.

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
The wind was SO strong it blew over tombstones!
 
 

 
 
 

This is one of the two Amish school houses that were destroyed.  They rebuilt it and were back to school within a week.

The other schoolhouse was lifted completely off of its foundation.


  Papers, books, desks, chairs, etc. were scattered in the woods beside the schools foundation.
Thankfully the tornado hit after school hours!


 
  
 


By Monday alot had been rebuilt thanks to the hardworking generous Amish.
  

 

7 comments:

  1. Crazy how everything can be destroyed so fast!! I'm glad no one was hurt though!

    -Kaitlyn

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  2. That certainly brings back memories.....
    Aunt Melissa

    Karl actually delivered feed to that farm that week. There were so many people and equipment he could hardly get his feed truck in there. Then his one air bag decided to explode on his truck....scared everybody...lol

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  3. WOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! That is cool!!!.......well not cool about houses being destroyed:(
    Glad everyone was ok!;)

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  4. So glad your Uncle Jon suggested you do this post!
    I'll take snow and cold over tornadoes!
    Holly

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  5. Tornadoes are so destructive! Praying for all who had them.

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  6. The posting shows the power of nature. How did you get such awesome pictures? The aerial photos were amazing. Grandmommy

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  7. Wow! I'll bet those "laying" hens won't be laying for a few weeks. Poor things! That's quite the ordeal there!

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