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    1. [INPCRP] Tornado Damage at Oak Grove Cemetery, LaPorte Co., IN
    2. Lois Mauk
    3. Holly Jenks has put some photos up on the web of damage at Oak Grove Cemetery in LaPorte County as a result of the tornado that swept through there earlier this week. Go to: http://www.cartogra.com/rs/B54E3242-CB2B-11D5-B429-0090277A760E (if this URL splits onto more than one line, you'll have the paste the rest of it in to your browser). The following message is from Holly: The story of the flag pole....the flag is tattered and the pole bent in half but it stands proudly in the cemetery. About 60 persons with chainsaws, payloaders and trucks came to the rescue. Now we need to add Tornados to the list of causes for cemetery destruction. Other cemeteries had their trees destroyed too. One lady died and her prefab home of only 4 mo was destroyed. Her house just flew away with her in it and she and the house landed in a farm field across from this cemetery. We are so lucky that nobody else was hurt. At least a 5 mile radius of the cemetery had trees destroyed. The road was closed but sightseers went by anyway. One group of ladies said they would stop but they needed gloves. But there were gloves, they parked their car and dragged brush to the road. Met so many nice people. HOLLY Jenks Laporte County

    10/27/2001 06:56:34