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Storm damage at Walmart: Pharmacy services available

Richard Raines writes at 9:06pmCT, Friday, March 2, 2012:
Just a note to let you know that while the Columbia Wal-mart is closed for emergency repairs to the building caused by the storm, the pharmacy did not receive any visible pharmacy damage, and pharmacy customers may come to the general merchandise door and come to the pharmacy Saturday normal hours (9am to 7pm). They just won't be able to go thru the other parts of the store shopping, just to the pharmacy counter only until the store re-opens. Thanks. --Richard Raines
Thanks: Richard Raines, as always for your dispatches: The Columbia Walmart store is now such a critical supplier of goods and services for a wide area that we appreciate updates on the progress in reopening. The situation is somewhat akin to the Houchens' fire in the 1970s, when a food store which supplied over half the supermarket food for Adair County was suddenly no longer available and there was suddenly logistical nightmares for thousands of families. The rebuilt Houchens store is now the building housing Sav-A-Lot on E. Guardian in Columbia, Perhaps other readers have more vivid recollections of how we coped with that. - EW




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Walmart 'closed till further notice'



2012-03-03 - Burger King, Columbia, KY - Photo by Ed Waggener.
Columbia Super Walmart remained closed this morning
Saturday, March 3, 2012 with access only to the Walmart Pharmacy. When this photo was taken just a little after sunrise, between 6am-7amCT, the parking lot was only partially filled with Walmart and other Semis, employee vehicles, and a few vehicles apparently left after the hailstorm swept through. A sign over the Home & Pharmacy entrance reads, "Closed until further notice." The hailstorm appears to have followed a very narrow west-east path, generally paralleling the Louie B. Nunn Parkway. Even at Holladay Place, the only damage appeared to be atWalmart. The Duo County office, Goodwill store, Burger King Restaurant, and Five Star convenience store seemed to have escaped damage, and BQ and Five Star were operating as usual this morning.

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Just Yards away from Walmart, Duo County is unscathed



2012-03-03 - Patricia Trail, Holladay Place, Columbia, KY. - Photo by Ed Waggener.
Just a few hundred yards from the temporarily closed Columbia Super Walmart,
Duo-County Telecom's beautiful new building stands bright in the morning after sunlight, apparently unscathed by the hailstorm which pounded Walmart with what was described by some as 'softball' sized iceballs on Friday evening, March 2, 2012.

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The Pines at Lindsey Wilson: Just cosmetic landscape issues



2012-03-03 - The Pines at Lindsey Wilson, 275 Country Club Road, Columbia, KY - Photo by Ed Waggener. At least the Clubhouse and Mulligan's Restaurant area appeared to have suffered little damage from the storm which moved through and a caused temporary store closing at Columbia Walmart, a few tenths of a mile away. The worst seemed to be a bit of pine debris on the drive across Country Club Road from the Donald and Bobbie McKinney home, background. Aside from a bit of insult to early daffodils - which were already recovering this morning - there was no heavy storm damage evident here.
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