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Old 05-31-2013, 06:49 AM
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More damage than I was told, mostly roofs, don't think it made any difference if the house was frame or block construction, the roofs R the same.

I wonder if the newer builds built to a higher wind load of 140mph would have survived any better?

Is it correct that the crews from TV expedited the repairs and re-builds or did it go on for many months with insurance claims taking forever......

I guess that was answered when I was typing


Brand new cinder block homes were completely decimated, meaning no outside walls, no inside walls, no roof.

A few corrections to previous posts; the tornado killed 20 some people (nobody in TV died although there were some serious injuries), the tornado was a quarter mile wide and stayed on the ground for over 20 miles.

In my CYV neighborhood, a roofing company came along and put tarps on people's houses, for a fee of course, not Mark Morse.