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QUOTE OF THE DAY
"One camel does not make fun of another camel's hump."
Weather forecast
Ghanaian proverb
MONDAY:
Mostly sunny, with a high near 66. Winds out of the northwest at 10-15 mph.
MONDAY NIGHT
Clear, with a low around 35. North wind of 5-10 mph.
FACT OF THE DAY
qi.com
The main exports of Ghana are gold and cocoa.
Sunny, with a high near 73. Winds out of the south at 5-10 mph.
TUESDAY:
TUESDAY NIGHT: Clear,with a low around 46
WEDNESDAY: Mostly sunny, with a high near 74
WEDNESDAY NIGHT: A chance of showers and thunderstorms. Mostly cloudy, with a low around 52.
— Information from forecasters Jordan Carroll and Aaron White KU atmospheric science student
What's going on?
MONDAY April 11
April 11
TUESDAY April 12
J. V. Sapinos will host a seminar on gender from 3 to 5 p.m. at Hall Center.
■ The University Senate Executive Committee will meet from 3 to 5 p.m. in Strong Hall.
WEDNESDAY
FRIDAY April 15
April 13
University Advising Center will advise students on which resources and tools will work best for them from noon to 2 p.m. in the Kansas Union.
- Tunes at Noon will take place at the Union from noon to 1:00 p.m.
SATURDAY April 16
Man Equals Man by Bertolt Brecht is playing at William Inge Memorial Theater in Murphy hall from 7:30 p.m. to 9:30 p.m.
THURSDAY April 14
Richard Reber and the School of Music will hold a discussion of 20th Century music in relation to animation projects at the Oldfather Studios from 2 to 3 p.m.
SUNDAY April 17
■ Carillon Recital at the Memorial Campanile from 5:00 p.m. to 5:30 p.m.
What's Missing?
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The Jayhawk statue in front of the Kansas Union was vandalized Friday night. According to the KU Public Safety Office, someone dismantled the Jayhawk from its base which caused $500 of damage.
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Garden's house survived, but everything inside was tossed around. Her two dogs were safe, but she hadn't yet found her cat.
"It's not a pretty sight," Standa said. "It's something nobody has seen in this town."
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"I don't know where our gazebo went," she said. "The garbage can right there, that was in the front yard. The shed is gone. I don't know what else to tell you. This is the most tumultuous thing I've ever experienced by far."
The huge, centuries-old trees the town was named for had been pulled out of the ground and wrapped around houses and tossed on top of cars, Standa said. In one case, a huge motor home had been flipped on its side.
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The tornado that struck the evening before damaged more than half of Mapleton, a town of 1,200 in western Iowa, Mayor Fred Standa said Sunday. He estimated about 20 percent of the town was "almost flat."
The tornado destroyed 12 to 15 blocks in the southwest corner
Tornadoes strike Iowa
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MAPLETON, Iowa — Jamy Garden's house began to rumble with the approach of a tornado that at one point measured three-quarters of a mile wide. Then the windows shattered, spraying her with glass. Using her cell phone as a flashlight, she fled downstairs and called her grandmother.
On Sunday, she returned home, wandering her backyard in a blood-splattered hooded sweat shirt, her right hand and left knee wrapped in gauze. Around her lay a tangle of tree branches, twisted siding, broken glass and a canoe that wasn't hers.
Utilities also were damaged, and gas fumes filled the town, prompting officials to shut off service. Pratt said gas service will remain off for the next two weeks.
The weather service said it had received reports of 14 to 16 injuries, the most severe a broken leg.
Siebersma,
53, said he rushed to the basement.
Upstairs, he heard bottles breaking. He emerged sewer.
Tamara Adams, 37, piled branches on the curb, next to the 30-foot-tall tree that rested on top of her house. She said she closed her basement door just as the tornado tore the roof off a store that sits diagonal from her house.
TAMARA ADAMS
"That sound," she said. "I'll never get it out of my head. It had a life. You could hear it breathing and growling."
but electricity should be restored in the next day or so.
blown off a high school, power lines were downed and homes and buildings were destroyed. Pratt said two people were taken to hospitals with minor injuries.
of Mapleton when it struck about 7:20 p.m. Saturday, Monona County Sheriff Jeff Pratt said. The tornado destroyed about 100 homes beyond repair, and has displaced an estimated 500 to 600 residents, he said.
The tornado was on the ground for three and a half miles and measured three-quarters of a mile wide at one point, according to the National Weather Service office in Valley, Neb. The twister was measured to be on the lower end of an EF3, which carries wind speeds of 136 to 165 mph.
The smell of natural gas hung thick in the air Sunday as forklifts and pick-up trucks hauled debris down streets lined with fallen trees.
The tornado was one of several reported in Iowa. The weather service said it had confirmed a total of four smaller twisters that touched down near Early and Nemaha, damaging several homes.
Terry Siebersma, who runs a downtown liquor store with his wife, was manning his shop when he heard the tornado sirens and saw the sky turn green. In the distance, he saw the twister swirl
In Mapleton, the roof was
"We were very,very lucky," he said. "I almost feel guilty."
into view.
"That sound, I'l never get it out of my head. It had a life. You could hear it breathing and growling."
"It was almost like the movies," he said. "It was loud really loud."
eral minutes later, and the store looked fine. He said he walked to a back storage room and discovered the roof missing and one wall on the verge of collapse.
Gov. Terry Branstad issued an emergency proclamation covering Mapleton and surrounding Monana County on Saturday so the state could send services to respond to the storm, his office said.
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Monana County is in the same region of western Iowa where four Boy Scouts died in a tornado that struck a scouting ranch in June 2008. The National Weather Service said the tornado that hit the 1,800-acre Little Sioux Scout Ranch in the Loess Hills had an estimated wind speed of 145 mph.
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ON THE RECORD.
On April 7, in the 2000 block of Constant Ave., someone broke a stop arm of an exit gate at a loss of $75.
On April 9, in Learned Hall an individual stole a fire extinguisher and pulled the emergency shower wash at a loss of $45.
On April 9, at the Kansas Union, someone dislodged a statue from its base causing damage valued at $500.
Jonathan Shorman