Did everyone make it through the storm?

I have been without power since 3 pm. Been running 2 maxi jets on battery since 9 pm. I've got three marine batteries. Hope they get the power back on before they run out!
 
Tank is fine; lost power for just a few seconds twice. Sure glad I put the extra hole in my return line...LOL. First time it had to work on its own. (All previous times were tests to insure that it would work). I'm off Becker in Oakville; my neighbor lost about 8 ft. of a wooden fence; other than that; everything looks ok!
 
lost power about 5:00 had to run to wally world and get a inverter,hooked it to the car and ran the main pumps for almost 2 hours just got power back around 12:30.Everything seems to have maid it.
 
Me and my girlfriend were eating at red lobster in Fairview and saw the tornado rip through the mall and the clothing store.
 
You guys SAW the damage happening? Man, that place is just across the highway from where the main damage happened. I think I would have had my head under the table or something. Did they have anything for you guys to do at the restaraunt in terms of providing shelter? Places like that I'd be afraid of the windows blowing in and glass shards flying everywhere.
 
McKendree College is completely trashed! Huges trees down everywhere, no power, even my brothers dorm/apartments sustained pretty heavy damage. 3 of the main buildings had major roof damage. The other half of the 3rd floor apartment colapsed down to the 2nd. (He stays on the half that was still on the 3rd floor.) He couldn't get in, structurally not sound. Amazingly no one was hurt - not even his little goldfish! I am just happy we weren't there. It's too early in the season for this!!
 
My power only went out for a few seconds so no problem there; however, my wife decided on Saturday that our basketball hoop, which had fallen down sometime ago, had to be put back up. She got it back up and put a bag of concrete on the base to keep it from falling again. Just in case you were curious, one bag of concrete is not heavy enough to keep a basketball backboard from being blown over during a storm. Also, a Honda windshield is not strong enough to withstand a basketball backboard landing on it during a storm - it is however tough enough to hold together and keep the rain from soaking the interior of the car. :lol:

Sometimes all you can do is laugh!
 
For lunch I decided to swing by the K&G to see the damage. Looked like the entire power grid for the Fairview Height business district was out. Along the way, I rolled past Aquatic Treasures to find a portable generator rattling outside store and likely a very nervous Velko inside. I hope he makes it. I never made it to K&G due to all the road blocks, however I did see quite a bit of damage in that general vicinity. i.e. Windows blown out, lots of signs damaged, etc
 
couple of area's in highland got hit pretty good. I thought we made it thru ok, until this morning. I work midnights and sleep in the day. So this morning I got off work, came home to watch the news and check out the damage. Then off to bed I went. about 45min later I hear banging right over my head. I figure no big deal, probly a few loose shingles, Then about an hour later, more banging and tearing stuff up. I got up when out side to see what the heck they were fixing up there. "I didn't have a hole in my wall or ceiling. Property management said that when they went up the fix a few loose shingles, they noticed the roof bowed. Had some guy come check it out. Appearently the wind lifted the roof up and broke some kind of support thing in side there. So now they got the take off the half the roof right above my apartment. They will be dueing this all day tomorrow. No sleep for a couple of days
 
Power was restored at about Midnight at my house in Fairview Heights. I was without power for about 30 hours.

I ran the tank on some battery backups for the first couple of hours. Then managed to get a generator that I couldn't keep running for more than 30 minutes for the life of me. Tank was down to 73 for a few hours, because the heaters just use a ton of electricity and it takes a lot longer to warm the tank than to cool it off. I lost several SPS frags, but I believe most of my livestock will make it. I probably won't see the effects for a day or two.

I got the best 5 hours of sleep in my life after the power came on last night. They still have lincoln highway blocked off and some parts of Fairview don't have power. I'm not sure about aquatic treasures, but the street lights are still out in front of the mall. It looks pretty sporatic as far as power goes.
 
I feel really bad for you guys :( For those of you that cannot afford/want to use a generator, could you use a UPS (Uninterrupted power supply) to power a few pumps or something? I know the UPS that I have on my computer can power that thing for a while, and a computer has to pull more juice than a pump...
 
I drove to Urbana/Chapaing and the store hit Rolla right before I left which caused hwy 44 to be a stand still for the first 1.5 hrs. After that there was smoth sailing and I followed the storm all the way up there, beautify lightning display. I saw at least 5 tractor trailers that were blown over on the roads on teh way up there.
 
<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=7097584#post7097584 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by Chelsey
Coolest thing I saw (cool because it didn't affect me) was one of those huge billboards with the steel pipe for a stand bent over in half, completely touching the ground. I was going to take a pic but I was kinda driving.
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Chelsey,
If its the same one, I saw the sign you are talking about on my drive back down to school the other day on 70. The sign didn't actually bend, there is a joint where 2 piece of steel come together and that is where it was broke.
 
<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=7099165#post7099165 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by toungetwster
Tank is fine; lost power for just a few seconds twice. Sure glad I put the extra hole in my return line...LOL. First time it had to work on its own. (All previous times were tests to insure that it would work). I'm off Becker in Oakville; my neighbor lost about 8 ft. of a wooden fence; other than that; everything looks ok!
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I am right off Becker as well, when I am home anyway. The wind was insane, but we didn't have any damage or anything. I opted out of driving back to school Sunday because of the storms. Took one more day off of school, and drove back Monday!:) Funny thing is, I opted out of class today (Tues.) also. I guess I really should go back......eventually!
 
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