[KCDXC] You haven't got rid of me YET!!!!

[Alex Tkatch]

Guys,
I just find out that one of the HAM's was hit pretty
bad by the tornado. Fred Gerken, KC5RT from Liberty.
He works with me at the PCS LAB. 
 The 1/3 of the roof is gone, TA33 and vertical are
gone and backyard looks like a big pile of various
stuff... He runs 3KW generator right know and seems to
be OK. I have seen pictures of the tornado he took a 
few minutes before it hit-that was a big son of the
...
 Fred is not a KCDXC member but he is the only local
ham I know of who suffered from this events.
 Should we come up with any plan for him? He said that
was a 3-rd time he has lost his antennas and he had
enoughf of it, but anyways...
 Let me know what you think.
 Thanks. Alex KU1CW
 

--- Chuck Kraly <k0xm@kc.rr.com> wrote:
> hemorrhoid, n.......a royal pain in the butt, that
> cannot be removed.
> 
> 
> Well here is the latest guys.....be patient I just
> got home and roadrunner
> just came back on line.
> Been at work since about 5pm last nite.
> 
> First of all, thats for all the concern. Carla and I
> are fine, and no
> property damage here. The twister hit just southwest
> of the Woodlands, and
> traveled a northeasterly path. Was about 1/2 mile
> from here at the closest
> point.
> Charlie, WD0GQA was even closer. It hit about 200
> yds from his house to the
> east-southeast. Also all are well and no damage to
> his property.
> 
> Guys, let me say something here. As some of you
> know, I have spotted storms
> since 1979 when I first got my ticket. And have seen
> some real bizarre ones
> in 23 yrs at BPU. NONE of those compare to this. The
> damage is totally
> disturbing. I have taken 125 pix of "Ground Zero",
> and will be putting them
> on a web page soon. Now, understand, majority of
> these are taken from a
> moving vehicle as we went from "mess to mess". After
> seeing some of these
> pix, it would be impossible in my opinion, to NOT
> have a stillness in your
> hearts. Some FAMILIES lost EVERYTHING.... and there
> is no way to recover it.
> The debris path is unlike anything I have seen.
> Houses (raised-ranch, and 2
> story) lifted OFF the foundation, and dropped 4-6
> inches from the original
> footings. Some houses completely disinigrated. After
> this, an Ice Storm will
> be a walk in the park. The hardest hit area was
> north east of the Wyandotte
> county lake, and due east of the Woodlands. There
> are whole housing
> divisions GONE!!!!
> 
> To say that I have been affected by this, is putting
> it mildly. I saw a
> 100ft wooden 161kv pole, lifted out of the ground
> INTACT. We were able to
> measure how far the butt was in the ground, the
> original factory cuts were
> still intact. Not like a broken pole. This one
> looked like it had just come
> off the truck, but had some dirt on it. And it had
> been in place for approx.
> 3-4 yrs. At our substation at 99 and Parallel, we
> had the green road signs
> from I435 (approx 1/2 mile west) that had blown in
> and took 4 inch aluminum
> buss and sliced it in two. If anyone of you can
> remember the red sign on K7
> highway, that said "Christmas trees here" with
> arrow, well it is 5 miles
> east in our sub. There were 40' STEEL tower
> structures on the west side of
> the sub which supported our 69 KV transmission
> lines, and had been there
> since KCPL owned that sub in the 1970's, and they
> were lifted and dropped
> about 75 yrs to the east in a field. I could go on,
> but the eyelids are
> getting heavy, and we are on 6am to when ever shifts
> starting in the
> morning. As soon as some of the dust clears, I will
> post all the pix on a
> web page, along with an explanation of what it is
> and approx. where it was
> taken.
> 
> One final note. We were sent to Pommerroy Drive and
> Cernech, which is about
> 2 miles due east of the Woodlands. We were
> instructed to fix whatever we
> could to restore power to the houses in the area.
> When I arrived in the
> area, I looked to the west, and out of a 25-30 house
> neighbor hood, only 3
> houses were KINDA intact. All the other ones were
> red tagged by the city as
> "Unfit". When I called the boss on the radio and
> asked if he had a
> particular place to start, he asked what my opinion
> was, and I told him we
> should get a huge frontend loader and start on the
> east and push towards the
> Lake. There were only 3 services to restore, and one
> span of 7200 primary
> wire. But, the clean up will take weeks. But, thru
> all this, I got a pic of
> a house (or the remnants of one) where there was a
> for sale by owner-CHEAP
> sign in the front yard. Another one had spray
> painted on what was left of
> the front- "WAS 3800 North 80th"
> 
> Will keep you guys informed.
> Thanks for all the concern
> Chuck
> 
> 
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