We were talking with a young lady we know whose farm was hit by the tornado here last week. Her house is still standing, though the barn has been significantly damaged and all their fences are either messed up or gone. Fortunately, all their animals survived. She has quite a story to tell - she went out to the barn to check on the horses as it was brewing up to be a pretty nasty thunderstorm, and the horses were
getting somewhat antsy after having to deal with multiple thunderstorms every day for the past 4 or 5 days in a row. She didn't expect
something like a tornado to come by. When she got to the barn and had just gotten inside, the heavy barn doors on both side blew right off
the building, and she grabbed onto a support beam and hung on for dear life. Oh, I forgot to mention that she is 8 months pregnant, too !
Amazingly, she and her baby are still fine, as are the horses, in spite of having other parts of the barn and roof getting pulled off by the wind.
After the tornado passed, she got on her cell phone and called her husband who was at the office and said calmly, "I think we need to call the insurance company."
A true, understated new-englander..
