March Continues...

March 11, 2006

Boaz Road in Massac County, Illinois

Boaz Road - Shingles ripped off house

Boaz Road - Massac County

Shed blown into woods...Boaz Road and Old Boaz Road

Barn Destroyed - Massac County

Barn in Massac County - Boaz Road

Part of roof blown off this barn...

Massac County - Boaz, Illinois

Anderson Church on Boaz Road tree damage

THURSDAYS OUTBREAK


FRIDAY OUTBREAK



SATURDAY OUTBREAK

Survey finds 1,548 homes damaged
Mayor estimates 1,000 of those uninhabitable

By BERNARD SCHOENBURG
STAFF WRITER
Published Wednesday, March 15, 2006


More than 1,700 buildings in the city of Springfield were damaged by Sunday’s storm, most of them people’s homes, city officials said.


City spokesman Ernie Slottag said Tuesday afternoon that a review by inspectors found that 1,741 buildings have been “damaged in some way,” 1,548 of them residential. The rest are commercial.

Of those totals, 255 residential buildings had major damage or were destroyed. About 55 of the commercial buildings had major damage or were destroyed, according to the city’s count.

The residential numbers count the buildings themselves. Since some of those are apartment buildings, each containing more than one housing unit, the number of affected households is clearly larger, Slottag said.

Earlier Tuesday, Springfield Mayor Tim Davlin said storm damage has probably made 1,000 homes in the city uninhabitable - at least for now.

“I’d say - we’re throwing some numbers out there - that at a very minimum we have at least a thousand homes that are not able to be occupied,” the mayor said at a news conference. “I’d say at a minimum a thousand homes, and we’re not sure how many businesses.”

Slottag said that guess probably still applies after the citywide survey. The 1,000 estimate came from workers for various city departments who have been in the neighborhoods and the mayor himself, who has been trying to get firsthand looks at areas of damage, Slottag said.

As an indication of the intensity of the storm, a news release from County Insurance and Financial Services, based in Bloomington, said that company alone received 900 storm-related property-damage claims from in and around Springfield due to tornadoes and wind.

State and Sangamon County emergency services officials said Tuesday they are not tracking statistics on how many people have been displaced from their homes. Kyle Belz of the Illinois Capital Area Chapter of the American Red Cross said the only solid numbers available so far at his organization were how many people had used the shelters it had provided.

Overnight Sunday - the night the storm systems passed through Sangamon County - 80 residents stayed at the Red Cross shelter set up at Lanphier High School, Belz said. Most of those people used the shelter for fear of staying in their own, unstable dwellings, he said.

Monday night, the Lanphier shelter housed 50 people, and another 10 were in a facility in Riverton also run by the Red Cross, Belz said.

However, those numbers don’t include many people staying with friends or relatives because of power outages or damage to their own homes or apartments.

As of midday Tuesday, Belz said, the Red Cross had opened 19 cases where the families or individuals involved could end up receiving cash assistance. Those cases aren’t necessarily all for housing, however - some could be for medication or clothing, he said.

Families in need of a place to stay can call the Red Cross chapter in Springfield to get the latest news on shelter availability, Belz said. The chapter telephone number is 522-3357.
 

Wednesday, March 15

BEAUTIFUL WEATHER SWEEPING ACROSS THE AREA :)  I love it!  It feels like SPRING outside.  The flowers are all starting to bloom.  The trees are budding out :)  Lots of energy.  Temperatures are great.  No complaints on the weather this week!

Lucy went camping last week...SUPPOSEDLY (although we do have our doubts, however, she did get her feet muddy below...soooooooooo I guess it is POSSIBLE).

Lucy running from Bailey so she won't get her little princess self wet

Want to see some REAL SNOW :)

OMG!!!!!!!!

Yellowstone National Park :)

Just dang!

Heroes Update

01. First Hero - Grandma Blanche $1000.00
02. Team Justice - $0.00
03. Team America - $230.00
04. Shadow Angels - $1000.00
05. Team Canada - $1000.00 (held a benefit in November - no update on amount raised at this time and several individuals have already donated $1000 to the hurricane relief)
06. Team Reds and Team Murray  - $1229.99
07. Team Gov - $650.00
08. Team Mexico - $650.00

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