It's been a hectic week around Poverty Flats. Last Friday morning about 7:00am we had a storm come through that caused serious damage to the area. Weather forecasters described it as an "Inland Hurricane" with flat-line winds of 85 mph. I'm not sure I agree with that opinion, because of the extent of the damage. I, along with many other people, believe it was a tornado.
We had a huge hedge tree in our yard beside the driveway which was nearly as large around as my Ford F-150. I say HAD, because it was totally uprooted falling over my BBQ truck, the Airstream travel trailer, and the carport roof. About half the shingles on the roof are now somewhere down in Arkansas.
The entire area was without power for days. We here were without for three days, and others are still without power after more than four days. Utility poles were snapped off like toothpicks. Portable buildings were blown away, and roofs were seriously damaged.
We have an insurance claims ajuster coming Thursday morning so we will see how good our insurance is. I'm sorry, but I trust insurance ajusters about as much as I trust lawyers. But we'll see.
On a more upbeat side, the Truman Days festival at Lamar MO was a huge success Saturday. After we dug the BBQ truck out with a chainsaw we had a really great day.
We have always done very well at Lamar, but Saturday was far better than we had ever seen there. We sold the first BBQ plate at 10:00am and by 2:30pm we were completely sold out of everything on the truck. The folks there had been without power and I guess they were hungry.
We are going to do something we have not previously tried for Memorial Day weekend. We will do two entirely different events about 70 miles apart on the same weekend. I will be at MOKAN dragway which is a huge event for us. At the same time, my son Josh will cover the Buffalo Days festival at Greenfield MO. with my other equiptment and BBQ. I'm anxious to see how this works because next year I plan to add a second BBQ truck to our business.
Well folks, it's late so must say goodnight.
Via Con Dios DM
Tuesday, May 12, 2009
Inland Hurricane
Posted by Don Miller at 8:27 PM
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Don..I'm so thankfull that no one was hurt during that storm!
Hopefully, your insurance will take good care of the damage.
I was actually in a tornado,once, and everything all around was totally destroyed, but the trailer where I had just stopped for a visit, was not touched...except for a single leaf touching the window. It was on a branch of a huge oak tree that had been entirely uprooted. On the limb, sat a bird's nest, too.
There were big. tall pine trees lying everywhere, but they fell perpendicular to my car, and nothing touched it.
The bathtub from one of the houses was sitting in the back yard, and a tin can had been driven into one of the trees.
It took several hours of several men with chain saws, to clear a path along the highway which I had just traveled up, with the tornado about seven minutes behind me.
Praise God for His faitfulness to us...it could have been so much worse.
Jan, thanks for stopping by. And yes, tornados can do some awesome things. I love to watch a storm with all it's fury as long as no one gets hurt. Have a great day. DM
Daddy,
Hope you all can get some of that cleaned up this weekend while Richard is up there. He is a hard worker as you know so I am sure he will get as much done as possible. Well better get off here and get things done around here. This evening is Laura's graduation so gotta get around. Love ya bunches. Love Linda
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