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

[Reicher, James]

Not sure if it was tornado related, but I saw an obit in yesterday's KC Star
for Paul Geiger, WA0BUR, of Kansas City, KS., who passed away Sunday at the
age of 81.

73 de N8AU, Jim in Raymore, MO


-----Original Message-----
From: Alex Tkatch [mailto:ku1cw@yahoo.com] 
Sent: Tuesday, May 06, 2003 6:05 PM
To: KCDXC Reflector
Subject: Re: [KCDXC] You haven't got rid of me YET!!!!


 
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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