Wayne, NE

[Catherine Rudin]

Hi, everyone.
I am fine and so is Ali and our house and the college.  Thanks for thinking of us.

The tornado passed about a mile from us, through the "industrial park" (Yes, Wayne has an Industrial Park, those of you who've been here at a couple of Siouan and Caddoan colleges will be amazed to hear.)  Our little airport was damaged and a number of small manufacturing businesses and warehouses and a convenience store were more or less flattened. Our vet's office lost its roof, and there was considerable damage to the countryside just east of Wayne: a few houses, trees, crops.  Fortunately the industrial park was almost deserted at 5:30 on a Friday afternoon; everyone had just clocked out and gone home, so most of the damage was to empty buildings; no people around to be hurt.  One friend of ours was pretty badly injured; caught in his car, now hospitalized with multiple broken bones and other injuries, but apparently going to be ok.

Over in our part of town we had golf-ball hail and a few tree limbs down, lost power for a while; no real damage considering the size of the storm.  

Bob, do you have my current email?  (carudin1 at wsc.edu)
It's very odd that your message bounced; I've been getting about the normal flow of email all day; servers haven't been down or anything.  

Anyway, thanks for your concern and greetings to all--
Catherine

>>> "Rankin, Robert L."  10/05/13 5:18 PM >>>
P {margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;}Folks,

I just saw on CNN that Wayne, NE has had an F4 tornado.  I sent Catherine Rudin a message inquiring about her and her family but the University server there bounced the message.  I know we all hope that they are all right.

Bob


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