Just to console those of you going through afflictions in the wilderness...things could be worse. Chad could probably tell you something about the microburst that hit the So Provo, and Novell areas. That was 3 days ago. Ryan and Shelley live in one of the areas affected...they still don't have power restored...which means they will lose most of what they have in their freezer and fridge. Inconvienient, but not really a crisis.

But yesterday I ran into Suzy Briley at Kohlers and talked to her a few minutes. She said that back in November she went to Tennessee for Thanksgiving and found out her brother had cancer. He died the next day. 2 days later she got a call from Doug Gunnells wife (remember Doug and Kim divorced about 7 years ago) telling Suzy that Kim and her Husband had experienced some problem with their car on the freeway and had pulled over and turned on their flashers...when along came a kid on drugs and plowed into the back of them, causing an explosion and they burnt to death. She says the year has gone on like that since then. I will have to call her next week before the Nelsons come...I told someone last week I need to anyway, but sounds like she could use a sympathetic ear.
On a happier note: We are going to the Mt property today for the first time. I hear that the property that we had wanted to buy is probably sold, which is too bad. But you can't do it all. Mtn property won't pay our bills when Novell won't. Love you all!

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Gramps said…
Yea...blew some of the roofing off Grandpa's shop in South Provo. Lots of damage around. I believe I heard that it snapped 45 power poles in South Provo. My guess is Susie is just waiting to get out of this life.
Gramps said…
Oh...and it clocked 90 MPH winds at the Provo airport before the measuring station was hit by debris and quit working. Flipped quite a few planes over even tho they were tied down.
Chad said…
I was amazed at how strong it was and how much water came down. When I was watching it, I thought it was the closest thing I've ever seen to a hurricane. Only difference is that it only lasted about 10 minutes at that intensity. But you honestly couldn't see 5 feet out the windows, because of how much water was falling (or blowing -- it was pretty much raining horizontally). Novell is pretty close to the Provo airport.
Unknown said…
Matt, a guy I work with (the one Christa and Brigham know) is a flight instructor for UVSC and the day before the storm, he said he had a flight the next day. The day after, I asked him if he actually got to do the flight. He showed me pictures of his upside-down airplane along with others, and the airplane garage that the storm blew off the front door of and ripped off the back wall. He also had pictures of snapped-off power lines and an apartment thing on a building in the airport with the roof/ceiling and one wall completely missing. He had pictures of a few cars that had all of their windows shattered out. They think it had to be a tornado to make that much of a quick pressure difference to blow out all of the windows in those cars and do all that it did. Pretty cool pictures though...
Chad said…
The news said it was a "Super Cell" - basically the most intense kind of storm, right up there with Tornados. Tornados have a funnel that touches the ground, super cells do not.

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