Just got our power back on after last nights Tornado here in Newburgh Indiana. Took my wife and son out earlier for a ride around the city and can only thank the BIG FISHERMAN in the sky for sparing our house and neighborhood. Terrible destruction especially in a trailer community in Southeast Evansville. 350 trailers in this community with 150 completely leveled. We saw the destruction from I-164 and it was horrible from that distance. I heard they found an 8 year old boy alive a few hours ago buried under the rubble but they can't find his 6 year old sister who was in the room next to him. Northeast of our house, a Pregnant woman, her husband and child were all 3 killed when it picked up their mobile home and tossed it 200 yards. Draw a straight line from Ellis Park to the mobile home north of us on a map and you will find the trailer community plus other hard hit areas of the city on this exact path of destruction. My neighborhood is on this exact same path as well. We lucked out. The tornado hit, bounced, hit, bounced and luckily for us it hit the bell community southwest of us, bounced over us, then hit the mobile home that killed the 3 people northeast of us. The power went out around 2am this morning and I never turned on a radio until our family members started calling this morning to check on us. Just moved here back in June and don't have any close friends local but had several people that work in my plant call as well for they new we live in Newburgh. Had been complaning to my wife about the power outage not knowing all the problems others were having less than 2 miles down the road. Puts it all in perspective. Thanks to the BIG FISHERMAN in the sky, I am able to type this and ask for all to keep our community and those that lost loved ones and those that lost all their material things in all of everyone's prayers. I am going to find a place the first thing Monday morning to donate money, food, clothing and whatever else is needed. I challenge others that love to chase the BIGUNS like me to do the same. If you can't help in a monetary or other way then a prayer will do just fine.
Tight Lines
