Friday, June 13, 2008

Manhattan Tornado

An F4 Tornado hit Manhattan Wednesday night. According to the Mercury it touched down in the Miller Ranch and Amherst areas, and weakened to an F1 by the time it reached Kansas State University. There were no reports of serious injuries in Manhattan, but the Chapman area reported two fatalities. Our thoughts and prayers are with everyone who is going through this tragedy.




The Wangsgaard's Home




The path of the Tornado is marked in blue. My parents were on their way to Guatemala so they were not in Manhattan during the storm. It touched down less than a mile from our home.



Here is a view of what's left of Water's True Value on Selth Childs.


I found these pictures on the Manhattan Mercury website, to see more pictures check out these links:

http://news.themercury.com/2008/06/Tornado/reader-photos.aspx
http://news.themercury.com/2008/06/Tornado/photos.aspx

To see video here is a link to YouTube courtesy of my sister Jayne:
http://youtube.com/results?search_query=manhattan+kansas+tornado&search_type=&aq=f

Also you can link to Jayne, and Nicole & Ben Coleman's blogs for their posts as well.