[SEL] Southern Indiana Storm

[Gary Epps]

Peter, the Midwest does indeed include MO.  I believe Kansas City, MO is 
close to the geographic center of the US.  The term Midwest includes a 
very large area of the US.  I am not sure that MO had any severe weather 
last night like Indiana did.

Gary

peter ogborne wrote:
> Mention was made of the Mid -West , does that include MO........I have a 
> friend in Marthasville.
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Judge Tommy Turner" <lcjudge at scrtc.com>
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> Sent: Monday, November 07, 2005 6:37 AM
> Subject: Re: [SEL] Southern Indiana Storm
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> 
>> Glenn,  You mention Munfordville, KY.  Its only about 10  miles south 
>> of me.  The town got hit pretty hard but to my knowledge, there were 
>> no serious injuries.  We've had our share of tornadoes around here.  
>> One in November is especially unusual.
>>
>> Tommy Turner
>> Magnolia, KY
>>
>>
>>
>> Glenn A Karch wrote:
>>
>>> Hi to the lists,
>>>
>>> Since several of you have asked about the southern Indiana tornado near
>>> Evansville, Indiana, here is what I know.  My wife didn't turn on the
>>> kitchen TV this morning so we missed the early news.  It came through 
>>> about 17 miles south of us.  It hit Munfordville, KY and the Ellis 
>>> Park horse race track which is in KY but on the Indiana side of the 
>>> river.  I destroyed the pavillion and grandstand areas.  From there 
>>> it crossed an area of the Ohio river bottoms where I have a farm.  
>>> The farm is bare land so there was no damage there.  Just a mile east 
>>> of my farm is where the mobile home court is.  It is a large trailer 
>>> court with possibly a couple hundred trailers and stretches for over 
>>> a half a mile.  The tornado came through the south half of the 
>>> trailer area absolutly flattening it.  Then further east it started 
>>> knocking down power poles along a highway where my wife's cousin has 
>>> a restaurant and flower shop, but no news about that yet.  Further 
>>> east yet, it flattened the community of Degonia Springs where a 
>>> family of four was
>>> killed.
>>>
>>> We are safe and sound with only a few rain sprinkles and a strong 
>>> breeze.
>>>
>>> Glenn
>>>
>>> Glenn Karch
>>> Haubstadt, IN, USA
>>> Hercules Historian
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