I was driving north on Iowa Ave. from my friend's house by the National Guard Armory (by hwy 28) and was captivated by two beautiful rainbows almost next (looking south east) to one another this evening (around 8:05pm before sunset)...
I called my friend that I just visited and told her to look outside her patio window. I told her I was going to the UMM campus to take more pictures of this beautiful site...
Wind Storm Knocks Branches All Over Sunday, May 6th 2007
I woke up too early this morning around 7am to the winds that were howling. I just layed in my bed to sleep longer, but I had a hard time just going back to bed. I finally got up around 8:30am because I heard a bulldozer or some big truck scraping it's plow along the road. I said to myself, "Is it snowing?..Why do I hear a snow plow?". I look outside of my bedroom window facing E. 3rd St. to find out a large section of a tree on the ground besides my neighbor's minivan. I saw tree branches around the van and thought the city crew wanted to get the owner of the van to move his vehicle in order for him to get the big branch. I would later go outside to head to church and decided to stop over to chat with the neighbor/owner of the van. As I got closer, I found out there was some serious damage to the vehicle (side and driver front-side windows gone or smashed w/glass window on the street; dents too!)....
Picture from my living room window facing south on E. 3rd St.
The neighbors (Jenny, Kim, and Sean-owner of the vehicle) told me that the city crew told them a heavy part of the tree landed smacked on top of the vehicle-just a block from here. I would later drive by it and notice the top of the vehicle was pushed down...
Took this on E. 1st St. going towards the corner of California Avenue.
Along my way to pick a friend from work for church, I took this other picture around town-West Side:
Along Wyoming Ave (around the corner of W. 5th/Hwy 28 going to Alberta)
I notice this tree down behind the parking lot of Federated Church on W. Columbia Ave.
Backyard of a house along the parking lot
Then on my way back home after dropping off my friend after church in the same side, I took this picture:
Along Wyoming Ave. on the corner of W. 7th St.
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Morris Sun Tribune
Published Wednesday, May 09, 2007
"No one was injured, but property damage was reported around the region from winds that reached 70 miles per hour in some locations last weekend.
City of Morris workers evaluate the task of removing a tree damaged by high winds early Sunday. A large section of the tree broke away and landed on a car owned by David Hamrum.
The Morris area did escape other problems, however. About an inch of rain fell in the area during the storm, but sections of Iowa and South Dakota took the brunt of the rainfall. Aberdeen, S.D., reportedly received about 10 inches of rain and many streets in the city were flooded."
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