A Tornado Hit our Plant in Nebraska!
OMIGOSH! I was buried in a meeting all day yesterday and totally missed this!
At around 9:00 p.m. Central Time, on Wednesday evening, our plant in Aurora, Nebraska sustained minor damage when a tornado touched down. The damage was to the outside of the warehouse. From the photos I’ve looked at, I think it was mostly parts of the roof and one wall.
All of our employees and their families are safe and accounted for–no damage to their homes. But some folks there lost everything! I HATE tornadoes! I can remember times when I was a kid and we had to “seek shelter” in the basement. In fact (I’m gonna get gross here), I can remember one time I was so scared I threw up in the laundry sink!
The house we live in now doesn’t have a basement. Somehow the big closet in the center of the house (which is supposed to be our safest place during a tornado) does not seem quite adequate. I wonder how much it would cost to build a bomb shelter in my backyard…..
It will take them a couple of days to get power restored and the plant up and running. Of course, we have other plants in other parts of the U.S., so I doubt there will be any problems meeting demand for our food.
My heart goes out to the people who lost their homes!
If you want to read more about it, I found these news sources on the Internet:
KHAS-TV Channel 5 News (video of our plant)
KETV Channel 7 News (video of the tornado) The video on this site makes me feel sick–the “storm chaser” actually gets waaaaaaaaaay too close to that tornado.
I HATE TORNADOES!!!!
