On Friday the National Weather Service declared that an Inland Hurricane had swept through the area. Wind gusts reached up to 100 mph throughout the whole Southern Illinois area. It was pretty crazy. According to the Ameren IP Web site, 64,433 customers in Southern Illinois were without power as of 7 p.m.
Most people were without power till early this morning, and there are many that will be lucky to have it back by the middle to end of this week.

School has already been canceled for the the next couple days because of the power problem. The wreckage is unbelievable here. We lost two very large trees, and I know over 20 people who have had trees go through their house.

You can read the story on it here.
http://www.register-news.com/local/l...128234308.html

 

That was one hell of a storm system that went across what seems like, the whole Midwest to south eatstern US. The rivers, creek banks, and dikes are swelling like crazy here in the swamplands.

 

Yes, I just finished cleaning up tree limbs yesterday from that storm. Our local weatherman said that the NWS reported 80 to 110 mph winds in a wide path through here. Lots of damage, and an inch and one half of rain in 20 minutes! It was crazy!

 

That's pretty extreme!

 

What a storm! Tornadoes and such here, but no inland hurricane!

 

Timber, have you heard anything about when KSNF will be back on the air?

For those of you who don't know what that is, it's our local NBC affiliate. The storm took down their transmitter tower.

 

Flood waters are starting to get up to maximum safe limits in some areas here. Our river through here is normally in a pretty deep gorge, but when we get the run off from the Ozarks, Missouri and Oklahoma, it swells big time. I think in the next few days there will be places the river will be a few miles wide. But most of these places are where no one lives. There are some pristine hardwood bottom lands in this area.

 

Very rare occurance... I'm quite pleased that it fell apart before it made it to our neck of the woods.