Roebling hit by a tornado Saturday

#1

Place got torn up pretty well I guess. Tower got damaged, among other things.

It wasn’t my fault. I wasn’t even there. It was a tornado for christ’s sake.

#2

Are you serious? That sucks.

Maybe they will finally get around to some much needed track maintenance! and make some improvements.

#3

Here is what showed up on a google search:

"Just wanted you to be informed about the tornado at Roebling Thursday. There were no injuries, the damages are as follows:
Part of roof on tower off
Stand across form tower ripped out of ground and destroyed
Tree down in front of Kaye & Richard’s house
Many many trees damaged by wind & lifgtning
Turn 5 workstation is upside down & ruined
Potalets overturned all over
Trash cans everywhere blown by winds
Several sections of fence crushed by limbs & portalets
P.A. & base station gone beyond repair
There is more, i just don’t remember at this time, but it was a mess. Kaye & Richard set about getting things cleaned up and repaired. By Friday noon, they had a lot of the mess cleaned up or it was being done. The tree trimmers had a full day’s work gettind rid of broken limbs.
Just found out tower structure was damaged, may have to replace it. "

I’ll be there in 2 weeks. We’ll see if the place gets up and running by then.

#4

Ranger wrote:

[quote]

It wasn’t my fault. I wasn’t even there. It was a tornado for christ’s sake.[/quote]

:laugh: Too funny

#5

Sorry to hear that, the place is always fun to race at.

Ranger wrote:

Are you sure? Did it go behind the tower? Is there still a lane to drive thru behind the tower?!?! :silly:

#6

wildhorsesracing wrote:

[quote]Sorry to hear that, the place is always fun to race at.

Ranger wrote:

Are you sure? Did it go behind the tower? Is there still a lane to drive thru behind the tower?!?! :silly:[/quote]

The tornado did indeed go behind the tower. But, interestingly, it came to a complete stop.

#7

Ranger wrote:

A witness reported that the tornado then moved behind the tower at 9mph and went over to a corner station in a sulking mood and turned it over destroying it. (howling something about ‘not fair…’)

#8

There are some pretty sketchy dwellings in the area, hopefully no one got hurt…

Al

#9

Yeah, I think there is a high correlation between density of mobile homes and tornado occurrences.

#10

What does a [insert favorite rural county here] divorce and a tornado have in common?

Someone’s losing a trailer…

#11

csrow wrote:

[quote]Ranger wrote:

A witness reported that the tornado then moved behind the tower at 9mph and went over to a corner station in a sulking mood and turned it over destroying it. (howling something about ‘not fair…’)[/quote]

LMAO. Roger that. Don’t F with a force of nature.

#12

Anyone think a work party outreach would be worth the effort?

#13

That description of RA after the tornado sounded like the Sunday morning mess on a typical NASA SE weekend. Right Travis?

#14

jbtripp wrote:

I’ll drive the 6 hours to help clean up if it will help Jim in booking the '09 dates.

#15

If you do, remember to book a hotel room.

#16

FARTBREF wrote:

[quote]There are some pretty sketchy dwellings in the area, hopefully no one got hurt…

Al[/quote]

you would know about sketchy dwellings…

:silly: