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| Written by Kristen Waggener | |||
| Wednesday, 17 June 2009 08:38 | |||
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Dan and Marty York consider themselves lucky. There was a few limbs strewn about, one of the trees in their backyard is leaning, a few roof shingles are missing, and the electricity went out. But the storm that hit Drexel, Mo., on Monday night left their home — and nearly every home in the small town — greatly intact with comparatively minimal damage. “As near as we can tell, the only people that had damage were when trees had fallen (on homes or vehicles),” Marty York said. The National Weather Service in Pleasant Hill, Mo., reported large supercell thunderstorms beared down on southern Miami County and northern Linn County in Kansas and southern Cass County and northern Bates County in Missouri Monday night and early Tuesday morning producing winds between 90 and 110 mph. The storms were not tornadic in nature, according to the NWS, but the wind speeds were comparable to an EF-1 tornado. The damage was widespread, but that didn’t stop residents of the rural town from helping their neighbors. “What happened (Tuesday) morning would only happen in a small town,” Dan York said. “People got up, called in and said they’re not coming in to work, grabbed their chain saws, rakes, trailers and got out and just got working. It didn’t even have to be their house.” Dan York said neighbors reported 4.5 inches of rain in their rain gauge Tuesday morning. Cleanup efforts continued in the town — where the winds ripped the roof off the Veterans of Foreign Wars building, among others — and in southern Miami County, where power crews continued working to restore power to the thousands of customers without electricity Tuesday. Power companies estimated power could begin to be restored around the area as soon as Wednesday. Look in Friday’s Miami County Republic Weekend edition for an extended story detailing how residents in rural Louisburg and Drexel reacted to the storm.
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