Christmas Tornado Rips Through Columbia County
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- Christmas Tornado Rips Through Columbia County
- Hurricane set back dreams: Pahokee family lost trailer a life they…
- Tornado warning watch issued.
- Tornado victims away for Christmas
Christmas Tornado Rips Through Columbia County
News4Jax.com – Dec 25, 2006
– A tornado cut a swath through Columbia County on Christmas morning destroying at least three homes and damaged 10 others but caused only one minor injury. Shortly before 8 a. Monday the National Weather Service issued a tornado warning for the Columbia County area. Minutes later the storm struck along U… Ashley wen’s mother alerted her that the storm coming. “She was yelling at us ‘We’ve got to get in the closet” because by time the we realized what it was it was already half-way across the lake” Ashley wen said. “It was just a wall of water.
Hurricane set back dreams: Pahokee family lost trailer a life they…
Free with registration – South Florida Sun-Sentinel – AccessMyLibrary.com – Dec 25, 2006
25–Pahokee–Even in the best of times lives in this hardscrabble town hugging the edge of Lake keechobee are beset with challenges and often heartbreak. So it was that when Michelle Wainz and her young family finally were on the cusp of making it carving a life amid chaos that misfortune found them again. This time it was Hurricane Wilma which ripped through Pahokee’s numerous trailer parks and thin-skinned homes like a buzz saw reducing Wainz’s life to rubble. It nearly killed her her fiance and daughter but Wainz doesn’t dwell on it. When she considers her life before and after the storm at this point it’s about possessions now long gone. “You build and you build and then one day it’s gone” Wainz said. “It’s hard to really say how that feels.
Tornado warning watch issued.
Free with registration – Sun News – AccessMyLibrary.com – Dec 25, 2006
(25-DEC-06) Sun News (Myrtle Beach SC). 25–The National Weather Service issued a tornado warning for Brunswick and New Hanover counties in North Carolina on this wet and stormy Christmas and a watch for Horry.
Tornado victims away for Christmas
Metro – Dec 25, 2006
But residents whose properties are in tatters over the festive season told how the disaster has helped foster a new community spirit. The tornado tore through Kensal Rise North London destroying houses cars and trees in early December. Crediton Road Chamberlayne Road and Whitmore Gardens were the worst hit – but no-one was seriously injured. Scores of families were initially prevented from returning home permanently and were escorted to their properties to pick up vital belongings. Houses were sealed off with surveyors deeming them either uninhabitable and unfit to return to or awaiting inspection. Research analyst Fiona Mulaisho’s home suffered internal and external damage with a wall being ripped off the side of the building… Houses were sealed off with surveyors deeming them either uninhabitable and unfit to return to or awaiting inspection. Research analyst Fiona Mulaisho’s home suffered internal and external damage with a wall being ripped off the side of the building. She was put up in an apartment after the tornado struck and is spending this Christmas with family in North London. But the 27-year-old insisted: “I am happy and can’t complain. The key thing is that nobody died. “The tornado had “fostered a great community spirit” she said. “People are concerned about each other.