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Nov. 6th, 2005 01:44 pmWell, Newburgh seems to have been creamed. I used to know a lot of people from the area when I was in high school, although I haven't kept in touch. Most of the Ellis Park harness racing track is gone too, I'm told. I used to always enjoy going there. Jay Silverheels, who played Tonto on TV, would race there sometimes.
It's curious that the tornados are coming in the fall again. In the 19th century, tornados used to be late fall and winter storms, often hitting in the night; then for some reason in the early 20th century they shifted to summer afternoons. Also in Indiana, where I grew up, big tornados typically came at the front of the storm, before the heavy rain, like they do in the Plains, and you can see them bearing down on you. Here in Ohio, a few hundred miles east, they typically come at the back of the roller cloud, and are hidden by the rain.
They'll be really lucky if 15 dead is all they have. After storms like this, you sometimes can't even find all the bodies.
Edit: It's interesting to me that the east coast new media struggle to find similes for the tornadic destruction such as "it looks like a bomb went off" or "it looks like those houses went through an industrial shredder". In the midwest, tornados themselves are what destruction is measured against. When something had been utterly wrecked, we always said "it looked like a tornado had gone through".
It's curious that the tornados are coming in the fall again. In the 19th century, tornados used to be late fall and winter storms, often hitting in the night; then for some reason in the early 20th century they shifted to summer afternoons. Also in Indiana, where I grew up, big tornados typically came at the front of the storm, before the heavy rain, like they do in the Plains, and you can see them bearing down on you. Here in Ohio, a few hundred miles east, they typically come at the back of the roller cloud, and are hidden by the rain.
They'll be really lucky if 15 dead is all they have. After storms like this, you sometimes can't even find all the bodies.
Edit: It's interesting to me that the east coast new media struggle to find similes for the tornadic destruction such as "it looks like a bomb went off" or "it looks like those houses went through an industrial shredder". In the midwest, tornados themselves are what destruction is measured against. When something had been utterly wrecked, we always said "it looked like a tornado had gone through".
