Tornado Damage (June 7, 2010)

Late in the evening on Saturday, June 5th and into the very early morning on Sunday, June 6th, several tornadoes ripped through our area, the closest ones being only about 4 miles from our house. Today we were able to drive past some of the damage.

Lake High School from I-280

Looking towards where on of the tornadoes hit from I-280. At this point 795 was still closed so we weren't able to get any closer.

There is debris everywhere. On the left side is a truck that has been destroyed.

On our way back home we were able to drive along with path of the tornado.

A church sign

Damage at the park

The Lake County Administrative/Police Department building. There's lots of damage around the back that you can't see here.

An old restaurant with little damage. The windows were boarded up before the tornado due to the resturant being closed.

A grain silo brought down

Lake High School. There's a lot of damage to the school. Graduation was supposed to be on Sunday, but had to be postponed indefinately. I couldn't really get any pictures of the school because we were going the wrong direction. Once the road opens up the other way we might be able to see better.

The high school again.

Debris covered fields

The truck on the right tipped on it's side

Pictures from today's newspaper

Millbury

Lake High School

The route of the tornado. Our house is by the C in Curtice.

This is one of the gas stations in Dundee, by Cabela's, that was hit. This is also the gas station that Jay and the guys stopped at on Wednesday on their way home from the boat.

Splash Universe waterpark in Dundee

Millbury

It was a rough night that night and there are lots of stories that have been told. Everything from people sleeping through it all, houses being destroyed, people being picked up and killed, the high school and police department being destroyed. One 13 year old girl was sucked out of a house and slammed back down onto the rubble. She was lucky enough to survive. Horses were pulled out of barns as they collapsed and ended up in a neighbor's swimming pool. It's just amazing. All this was only about 4 miles from our house.

Easter Weekend (April 1-4, 2010)

Daniel and the bubbles

Jacob putting together Ladderball

Playing Ladderball

More bubbles

The boys were washing the cars while the weather was still nice

The weather all of a sudden changed and the temperature dropped

But it's never too cold for Ice Cream Galore. The kids eating the first cones of the season.

Easter Sunday flying kites and playing soccer

Marblehead in March (March 29, 2010)

The end of March the Calumet had the lucky oppotunity to load stone at Marblehead. They were are so excited too. (Yes, I am being sarcastic)

Jay got off the boat once they got there so we could go out for lunch and wander around some. After driving through Lakeside (the Chautauqua of Lake Erie), we found a spot to take a picture of them loading.

Afterwards, we went over to the Marblehead Lighthouse.

It was a fairly windy day.

And not very clear.

Cedar Point from the lighthouse grounds

The Memorial Stone compass