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This is the view from the house which shows the pieces of the shop which were blown about 250 to 300 feet up against the fence.
A motor-home, two boats and a pick-up truck are buried under the rubble.
Zach Schafer came into The Record office on Monday to report on a storm which had touched down at their place in the country on Sunday night.
He and his family were watching a Seahawks game on TV at his parent’s (Tom and Lynette Schafer) house in Odessa on Sunday when a weather warning came across the screen about a possible tornado between Ruff and Marlin, which is right where their place in the country is located. They decided to head home out of concern for their dogs.
The power was out and it was dark so they couldn’t see much, but two spruce trees had blown over and crushed a fence and an 80 by 50 foot machine shop, built in 1949, was destroyed. Pieces of that slammed into the house and vehicles causing damage to them. Schafer said huge pieces of lumber blew 250 to 300 feet and were stopped by the house and fence. The dogs were in the house having entered through the dog door.
Pieces of the shop blew against their pick-up and left lots of damage on one side of it, leaving the other side of it untouched, except the running board was ripped off by the wind.
Schafer said Ed and Doris Jasman have a weather station at their house two and a half miles away and it recorded 92 mile per hour winds, but when they came to look at the damage at Schafer’s, they said it looked like a different storm, because Jasman’s place had only light damage. Claassens, one mile away, had only a little damage; at Alan Ramm’s place, one and a half miles away, one end of the shop had blown off; and at the Frick place, where Nick Goetz lives, one side of the grain crib was lost.
Schafer said the line of new steel telephone poles, with circumferences of about 12 feet, on Wheeler Road between U and S roads, were all blown over onto the road. The poles had been secured with huge bolts about six inches in diameter all around the bases. He said he could see about seven of them down which was as far as he could see because the road was closed.
Schafer said their place had seen many storms over the years with sustained winds of 70 miles per hour, but never anything like the one on Sunday evening.
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