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Originally Posted by Horsehockey
My hometown of 8000 in Saint Peter, Minnesota. I was away in the service. My dear mother and her tenant hid in the downstairs laundry room closet and the tornado passed overhead before it went right down Main Street.
Lots of damage for a small town. This from Wikipedia:
On March 29, 1998, a tornado struck St. Peter, killing six-year-old Dustin Schneider, injuring dozens more, and damaging much of the town's housing, commercial, and civic buildings. The tornado destroyed 156 single-family houses and 51 apartment units. An additional 362 houses and apartments suffered serious damage and 1,383 houses or apartments had minor damage. The town's three trailer parks were largely spared with no mobile homes destroyed and just two seriously damaged. Major losses included the Old Central School, St. Peter Arts and Heritage Center, St. Peter's Catholic Church, St. Peter Evangelical Lutheran Church, and Johnson Hall at Gustavus Adolphus College.
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random coincidental memory:
I still remember getting the shipment of a radio-station's computer returned to headquarters after that storm. The inside of the computer's case was filled with pea-gravel likely from landscaping around the station office. I think it was wet gravel and the computers electronics were largely unsalvageable.
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