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Topic: cS member David Houseworth survives tornado
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BMacKinnon
Member Posts: 230
From: Waterford, MI. USA
Registered: Jul 2007
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posted 11-18-2013 07:24 AM
   
I am not sure how many of you know "Astronut" David Houseworth. I just spoke to him by phone, he lives in the town of Washington, Illinois that was devastated by a tornado last night. He and his family are okay. The fire station that he is a captain at is okay but three of his firefighters lost their homes. He is going to be busy for the next two weeks with the clean up so he will be offline but wanted me to put the word out so that all on cS knew that he was okay. He will update me if there is anything we can do for him. |
Greggy_D
Member Posts: 977
From: Michigan
Registered: Jul 2006
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posted 11-18-2013 07:27 AM
Thanks, Brad. That is good to hear about David. |
MarkRP
Member Posts: 174
From: Michigan, USA
Registered: Nov 2002
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posted 11-18-2013 07:44 AM
That's good news that he is ok. |
Robert Pearlman
Editor Posts: 42981
From: Houston, TX
Registered: Nov 1999
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posted 11-18-2013 07:54 AM
Very glad to hear David and his family came through the storm. |
Philip
Member Posts: 5952
From: Brussels, Belgium
Registered: Jan 2001
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posted 11-20-2013 10:21 AM
Indeed good news... |
randy
Member Posts: 2176
From: West Jordan, Utah USA
Registered: Dec 1999
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posted 11-20-2013 11:34 AM
Great to hear that. Very good news indeed. |
p51
Member Posts: 1642
From: Olympia, WA
Registered: Sep 2011
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posted 11-20-2013 11:50 AM
I don't know the man, but of course I'm happy that things are okay! quote:
Originally posted by BMacKinnon:
He and his family are okay.
I assume this means his home is okay, too? Of course, the health and welfare of the occupants of the primary issue, but I hope he didn't get much property damages, either!A good friend of mine rode out a tornado a few years ago, which destroyed the houses in front, back and on each side of his house but didn't touch his. It didn't even turn his trash cans over or even cut off his power. It's amazing how random they can be. My experience with storms is limited to hurricanes and wind storms, where everyone gets pretty much the same experience... |
BMacKinnon
Member Posts: 230
From: Waterford, MI. USA
Registered: Jul 2007
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posted 11-20-2013 01:04 PM
His house survived also. The images of his town have been on the national news - it is devastating. |
Ronpur
Member Posts: 1211
From: Brandon, Fl
Registered: May 2012
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posted 11-20-2013 03:21 PM
Good to hear. My cousin lives there as well. We still don't know how bad his damage was, but there was a lot. It is scarey seeing images of the area where you grew up being hit like that when you are so far away. But they feel the same when hurricanes come through our area. Actually, finally talked to him and their home was a total loss. But no one was home at the time. His upturned car has been seen on the Weather Channel a lot, and he jokes that he is glad he drove his good car to church, so now he is finally rid of the old clunker. Glad his humor survived! |
astro-nut
Member Posts: 946
From: Washington, IL
Registered: Jan 2006
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posted 12-01-2013 10:06 AM
I would like to say thank you to you all at collectSPACE for your nice comments. It was two weeks ago today that the tornado devastated our city. It is now time to try to get back to being normal. The destruction was severe in our city. It will take at least a year or more to get back to rebuilding our city, but we will. The tornado missed my house by approximately a half mile. It is very unfortunate that a lot of people I know have no houses left. We will recover and rebuild our city! We have been extremely busy at the fire department but it is slowly getting back to normalcy now. In my 21 years of being a firefighter this is the most devastation that I have ever seen in my career! Once again, I want to say thank you for all nice comments and thoughts and prayers for our city. Thank you. |
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