Wind storm causes power outages
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July 15, 2021
Sunday morning, Dan and Selena Laughlin and family helped Pat Faimon clean up the tree that had fallen across the street a block south east of Main Street in Lawrence. Selena noted they were going to be bringing cattle to the Nuckolls County Fair that morning, but that effort was delayed because of the storm damage in front of her father's home.
If you've lived in Nebraska very long you will have learned that 'Wind Storms' are a fact of life. They are part of life on these prairie grounds we live on.
A whole lot of Nebraska experienced such storms last Friday night with reports coming out of Omaha of 96 mile-per-hour winds.
We here in south-central Nebraska also had a part of that storm, but maybe just not a bad as Omaha did.
One half of this tree took the trip in the storm this week. When finished, it covered the alley between the old convent east of Sacred Heart Church in Lawrence and the home of Delores Kucera.
In talking to the South Central Public Power District representative the area of northern Clay County seems to have received the most damage in its area. There were two 'double pole' structures down south of Harvard and about a dozen distributions pole went down in that area.
In Lawrence power was out for 1 1/2 hours during the night. In the Angus area a tree limb landed on power lines. Over all, about 1,500 meters were affected in the Power District.
Lawrence had several tree blown down across streets.
Homeowner, Pat Faimon, lost one of two large trees in front of his home in Lawrence. However, he noted in his garden not more than 100 feet or so, his sweet corn stand was still straight up.
Most folks were very grateful the worse of the storm missed this area. However, they were sad to see the rain also seemed to go elsewhere as amounts measured around a quarter inch or so.
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