University Daily Kansan / Wednesday, November 16, 1988
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Fall tornado takes Topeka by surprise
By Deb Gruver, Barbara Joseph and David Stewart Kansan staff writers
TOPEKA — Welcome to Topeka.
That's what Phil Rosette thigh tipped yesterday after the tornado tipped over the moving van that just had delivered his furniture. Rosette had arrived from Detroit at his new home, 5800 S.W. 37th St.
Rosette first called 911, then the operator, to report the accident. He couldn't get through.
The Corrigan Moving Systems' van was on its side, punctured by trees and a fence, just 100 feet from Rosette's driveway.
"We have blizzards in Detroit," Rosette said. "This is my first tornado."
--manager, were the only ones in the store when the tornado struck and broke all of the store's front windows.
Bob Resnik, cld in Army fatigues,
stood in front of his demolished home
at 2812 S.W. Maupin Lane and com-
forted his two children.
"Remember that deck we wanted?" he asked them. "We're going to be able to get it now."
Resnik's roof was gone, the windows were broken and furniture inside the house was upside down.
Outside, orange and yellow fiberglass insulation from the walls hung in autumn-bare trees. A trailer was parked in the back of the house; a street sign lay in the yard.
Resnik's two children clustered around their mother and cried.
Around the corner at 2737 Osborne Road, James and Judy Stewart and their son Mike were sorting through their collection house they had lived in for 18 years.
--manager, were the only ones in the store when the tornado struck and broke all of the store's front windows.
The attic was gone.
On one side of the house, the upstairs bedrooms had open sky for ceilings. The Stewarts had covered walls with plastic in anticipation of more rain.
"We looked out, and the rain was so forceful it was almost straight out." Stewart said. "My husband said we should take cover, so we ran to the basement. Just as we got there, we heard a boom and glass flew. The office window exploded. It barely missed us."
When the tornado hit, a plumber
displaced the roofs of the building,
the Stewarts remodeled their house.
--manager, were the only ones in the store when the tornado struck and broke all of the store's front windows.
Jesse Long knew he was in trouble with his garage started falling in around him.
As Long picked up a boat seat that was strenuously yards away from the boat, he said that he was lucky to not hurt during yesterday's tornado.
"It about sucked my ears off."
Long said of the tornado that struck his home at 3620 S.W. Vanamaker manhasset for a trouble when I heard those winds."
He and his wife will spend the next few days salvaging what is left, picking up what they consider still valuable.
"I stung all the way through here," he said, pointing to the field where debris from his garage lay in. Where debris will just pick up what can be saved."
His mother had been downstairs and said the only clue to the tornado was the lights that kept flashing on and off.
Around 4 p.m., the Heustead's son, Ran, warned neighbors to stay away from the garage doors that were folded over like an accordion.
In another part of Topeka, Warren Heusted woke up from napping in his den to find the blown off in his house at 2807 S.W. Osborne Road.
--manager, were the only ones in the store when the tornado struck and broke all of the store's front windows.
"And I heard this horrible roar from the window well." Marian
Mariorie Lona. Topeka resident. survevs the damage after a tornado struck her house near S.W. 37th Street.
Heusted said.
She said she wondered why she had no heard no warning sirens in the neighborhood — a neighborhood covered in shards of concrete that hated that flown off homes.
Yesterday's tornado will warrant a rebuilt house for the Heusteds.
--manager, were the only ones in the store when the tornado struck and broke all of the store's front windows.
A steady stream of people hauled out the remains of the Severn's home at 2813 S.W. Osborne Road. Their disaster was the worst hit in Topika's灾情。
All that was left standing was the upstairs bedrooms, where clothes still hung in the closet.
Two bedspreads, one navy and one flowered, hung from the roof of the house and swaved in the wind.
Barbara Severn arrived home from her job after she had seen her brother.
"I want my rings," Severn said as she moved toward her home.
After her son Bill retrieved them, she and co-worker Laurie Lolley hugged.
Severn went upstairs and removed pictures from the walls of the house.
The tornado had provided passersby with a clear view of the inside of the Severn home.
What was left was being taken across the street to a neighbor's house.
Phil Carvalho/KANSAN
--manager, were the only ones in the store when the tornado struck and broke all of the store's front windows.
Less than two hours after tornado does struck Topka, businesses at 21st Street and Fairlawn Road were optimistic.
"We'll be open before Thanksgiving," said Carol Emmerling, assistant manager of Arby's restaurant, a chain one, of the hardest-hit businesses.
The roof of the restaurant had been torn off. A USA Today newspaper box had been uprooted and had smashed through a glass door.
But after it all, a display of drinking glasses remained standing in perfect order.
Barb Parks was working on her second day as an Arby's employee.
She said she had worried whether her children were safe. They were in Shawnee Heights, an area the tornadoes did not affect.
Barb Parks, an employee at Arby's restaurant, 5330 S.W. 21st St., inspects the damage after the tornado hit. It was Parks' second day on the job.
--manager, were the only ones in the store when the tornado struck and broke all of the store's front windows.
Catherine Gilmer, an employee at Kinney Shoes, 5200 S.W. 21st St., said that the whole situation was hard to believe.
Gilmer and Vince Rodriguez, store
Soon after disaster had struck, all was calm.
"Look at the rainbow," she said. "The sun's shining."
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