Tornado at the Lake, October 24, 2001

Above: Note that the front wall is bowed in.

The roof of the house lifted and walls moved. Above, you can see how the ceiling lifted.

Above: wall separated from floor by about four inches

Above: ceiling and walls separated

If there is a lighter note, this is it: An oak leaf with its stem driven through the 4-mil plastic on the carport. The other oddity involved the pullstring for the closet light in the guest bedroom. When the ceiling lifted, the string was sucked through the opening into the attic stairway. The string is still connected to the closet light fixture but the light turns on from the attic!

 

. . / tom 'n' mindy

October 28, 2001