Tornado Hits Northern Parts of State
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| Jennifer Schwan |
| 7/9/2009 |
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| While we`ve been waiting for official verification on whether it was a tornado that hit Dickinson last night, there have been several other tornadoes confirmed near the Canadian border. Near Portal, two firefighters say they drove away from a tornado that blew out their back windows. Tornadoes also hit near Northgate and Sherwood. The town of Sherwood sits close to the Canadian border, and last night the town was in close vicinity of thunder storms and tornadoes. "I was driving into town and I saw funnel clouds everywhere," says Ross Carter, the Chief of Police in Sherwood. One of those clouds, turned out to be a tornado, that was spotted a few miles west of Sherwood. "I heard on the scanner that there was a tornado at the Keith`s farm, so I called a neighbor to go look," says area farmer Steve Keith. Keith has a farm in the western part of Sherwood and has had his farm hit by tornadoes before. "I`ve been hit three times in this yard," says Keith. When Keith, headed over to his farm this morning, he found three wheat bins thrown to the ground and a tree tipped over. "Some where in the $7,000 to $10,000 amount, " says Keith. Keith has already put a call in to the insurance company, but says that it won`t cover all the damage. "I`ll never get back all that this thing was worth," he says. As a farmer, Keith relies on the storage bins to store his wheat. "I`ll lose 8,000 bushels of storage," he says. "With today`s prices your looking at two bucks a bushel. That`s $16,000." For now, Keith will continue to pick up the pieces from last night`s storm, before another storm hits again. In northern Burke County, there were reports of downed power lines, damaged oil storage tanks, a destroyed barn and a destroyed granary. |
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