<html><head><meta http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"><META name="Author" content="Novell GroupWise WebAccess"></head><body style='font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; '>Hi, everyone.<br>I am fine and so is Ali and our house and the college. Thanks for thinking of us.<br><br>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.<br><br>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. <br><br>Bob, do you have my current email? (carudin1 at wsc.edu)<br>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. <br><br>Anyway, thanks for your concern and greetings to all--<br>Catherine<br><br>>>> "Rankin, Robert L." <rankin@ku.edu> 10/05/13 5:18 PM >>><br>
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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.<br>
<br>
Bob<br>
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