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Updated: 7:32 PM Apr 10, 2009
Christian County Home Hit by Tornado
A tornado in Christian County has destroyed a home north of Crofton, injuring two people.
Posted: 6:27 PM Apr 10, 2009Reporter: Forrest Sanders Email Address: forrest.sanders@wbko.com |
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A tornado in Christian County has destroyed a home north of Crofton, injuring two people.
"Misty was in the house and it throwed her about fifty feet," Mannington Loop home owner Robert Huggins explains. "My grandson was in the house, didn't hurt him. It just happened so quick. It was gone."
One minute and thirty seconds.
It's all it took for Robert to lose the place he'd called home since 1971.
"Me and my son were working in the garage," he recalls. "We heard the wind coming outside the garage door. When tin started flying, he told me to get down. When we got up, garage was gone, and the house was gone."
Robert's daughter-in-law Misty Huggins is at Jenny Stewart hospital with hip and leg injuries, while his grandson Ryan Huggins has an ankle injury.
In the meantime, Robert's left to assess the damage of one tornado tracked Friday by Christian County Emergency Management.
"The first one we were tracking on the radar," explains storm spotter Gary Pettus. "It was visible. The second one came through, it developed quickly west of the county."
Looking at what the storm has left, Robert says he's amazed and thankful no one in his home was killed.
"We're all lucky," he says. "It's not sinking in yet. Picking up the pieces. That's all you can do."
Chief of the Mannington Fire Department Louis Brooks adds, another trailer and two buildings were hit by the tornado, but no one was inside any of these locations.
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