[ADXA] Scott's QTH Storm Update

[W5KI@SL]

Scott,

So glad you are okay.  What a night!

Had an appointment in Bentonville today and drove some of the Rogers 
area heading home. Bentonville, then Walnut Ave, down to Pleasant Grove 
Rd, and then over your way.  What a mess with power lines and home 
damage from the huge trees coming down.  I didn't venture down to Monte 
Ne, just thru the roundabout at 1st/Arkansas St.  Saw the destruction at 
the Susie Q and other shops just to it's North. The parts of Rogers with 
major tree damage -- covered such a huge area -- I was amazed.  It sure 
looked like multiple vortexes were occurring as that huge storm passed 
through town and East.

Again, so glad ya'll were safe. Prayers for the loss of life in the area.

73, Steve, W5KI



On 01-Jun-24 16:08, sbranyan at cox.net wrote:
>
> Last Sunday morning around 2:15 a.m. we got hit by one of several 
> tornadoes that came through Benton County. In our neighborhood, my 
> neighbor lost his cousin in her eighties after a tree fell on her house.
>
> The storm that got us was south of the major one that came down Walnut 
> Street in Rogers. It began as straight-line winds around the Harris 
> Baking Company and as it reached Monte Ne became more cyclonic. Our 
> neighbors suffered big downed trees on their property with a moderate 
> amount of damage to structures. A lot of the smaller trees and 
> telephone poles snapped about 10-12 feet up off the ground. SWEPCO is 
> basically having to rebuild the power grid here—400 poles, 10 miles of 
> line, many transformers, etc. Cleanup will take a while. Horseshoe 
> Bend campground suffered damage and about a dozen RVs turned over. The 
> Corps says will be months before it reopens. Hobbs State Park was also 
> hit hard with downed trees. Most of the damage in town was on older 
> structures, metal buildings and residential homes hit by trees. The 
> Susie Q was nearly flattened. A lot of gas station canopies and pumps 
> were destroyed.
>
> Back during Covid, I had 18 mature oaks and hickories--many 100’ or 
> taller--cut down around the house. This spared us structural damage, 
> although we lost our oldest tall oak which was uprooted and fell away 
> from the house and my hexbeam. I have a trail through our 4 wooded 
> acres and suspect there are other large trees down also. There are a 
> lot of widow-makers.
>
> We have some limited backup power but enough to make the situation OK. 
> We are on a deep well and our power source is not sufficient to allow 
> us to pump water, but the neighbors across the street allows us fill 
> as many 5gal jugs as we desire :-). Four jugs usually get us through 
> the day. I’ve been cooking outside with camp gear also, which I’ve 
> enjoyed.
>
> Thursday afternoon, power crews began working on our neighborhood and 
> we are hoping to see power on by late tomorrow. But one of the linemen 
> told my neighbor it would likely be Wednesday.
>
> I lost both wire antenna in the tree damage around our place, but the 
> hex beam is none the worse for the wear. This afternoon, I finally had 
> the energy and time to get the radio going this afternoon and made an 
> easy contact in New England on FT8. The battery power station did 
> great providing power for laptop, DC power supply, and radio. I hope 
> to catch FT4GL later tonight when propagation improves.
>
> My hope is ADXA members have not suffered major storm loss this 
> spring. It’s been a bad season!
>
> As I finished editing this, power just came on at 2100z!//
>
> 73, and may God bless you and yours,
>
> Scott/W5AAJ
>
> Rogers, AR
>
>
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