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Storm cleanup shuffles social rankings for the moment Heroes are armed with chainsaws today By Ed Waggener High winds in Columbia between 7pm and 8:30pm CT on Tuesday night did extensive tree and structural damage around town. It was pretty bad. Not a plumb disaster, but plenty agg'avating, to say the least. The clean-up is being addressed with high spirits. Besides the roof damage at Grissom Funeral Home, the awning being blown off C&F Discount and Furniture on the Square, and downed tree across Elm Street, reported last night, minor to greater wind mischief was seen all over town this morning; the sounds of chainsaws made the music of the morning. This morning, it was clear that roofing had been ruffled on the historic "Bivouac of the Dead" building, the old Corner Drug building which now houses the flower garden, and similar surprises awaited other property owners.One of the plexiglass panels protecting the stain glass windows on Columbia Baptist Church's Monroe Alley side was blown off, but no damage to the leaded glass windows was seen.It was a night which, at least for the moment, shuffled social rankings dramatically: The most important people in society this morning were not doctors and Mayors, District Judges and Judge-Executives, millionaires or even beloved barbecue chefs. No, the ranking citizens today are people with chainsaws, trucks, ladders and rakes; utility linemen, and clean up crews. They would be wearing the laurels if their hardhats were essential and in the way of a crown today.The situation is not without it's heroes. For Johnny Morgan, his brother Marvin, and their force, today was akin to Memorial Day for an Indy racer and crew. They were ready, equipped, trained, organized, and ready to seize the day. While so often clients are like sinners and wait for some more convenient day to see their dentist or call their tree trimmers, today nobody seemed to be willing to wait. Every downed tree was an emergency threatening backyard spring parties. "They calling us from all over town," Marvin Morgan said as the crew was rushing through breakfast. We've got more than we can do." But they were making a valiant effort, nonetheless. Even though they had spent most of the night pulling David Martin's ox out of the ditch--tarping the roof on JJ's tall 2.5 story Grissom Funeral Home--during the drenching downpour which followed the winds, they seemed to have athletes second winds this morning to carry them through today's house calls. The damage was widespread around town. Donnie Rowe and his highly efficient Columbia Street Department Crew were back on Elm Street to saw up and cart off the last of the tree which fell out of Dr. Ron Rogers' yard across Elm Street. As usual they were making quick work of their tasks, making Mayor Bell & Clerk Edwards look good. A large tree was down in Mike and Margaret Owen's yard on Greensburg Street. A memorable redbud was felled near John and Melissa Arnold's at the foot of Guardian. And branches were down in the Carl and Jane Hutchison yard. Just up the hill, a large water maple was down in the line between the old Stevenson House and the house just north, the one owned for so long by the Allens, Reeces, and Marshall families. A landmark tree in the David Eubank yard, next to Columbia Church of Christ, was down. And over on Miller Avenue, in the lane between Miller and Lowe's Lane, a beautiful old Cedar was blown over. Cedars seemed to fair better than most. The cedar-lined east entrance of KY 80 to Westlake Drive was intact, though other trees between Westlake Drive and the Jones-Wright Addition were down, and limbs were scattered along the side of Westlake Drive. One of the privacy pines between College Park and Pleasant View Drive was down. A shade tree along the town branch at the Christian Church Park was on the ground. Trees which have been icons for decades were downed, including one of the tall trees Lindsey Hill is famous for, fell. Water maples and other dody trees suffered everything from cosmetic dings all the way to complete collapse. Bradford pear trees took the hardest hits. Many of them were down today. It was a morning of strewn garbage cans, wheel barrows, kid's wagons in neighbor's yards, and basketball blown thitherly and yon like tumbleweeds. Those movable sandcan anchored basketball goal backboards turned to sails, and many of them were tipped in drives around Columbia this morning. But sorting out whose is what is triaged for later. There were many other instances of wind damages. These were the few of them CM was able to chronicle today. The complete catalog would just have been, as we used to read in the auction ads, too numerious. But reader input is welcome.It would be nice to have aerials to show the fervor with which Columbians are responding climatic error, but that wasn't possible for us this morning. This story was posted on 2007-04-04 10:16:03
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