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Wet weather can’t stop people from having fun at the Clarksville Fairgrounds
By Bill Larson | May 7, 2009 | 
Josh Loy throws the football to Taylor Hull Jr as Michael Gray looks on.
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The Day After: Resilient residents on the road to recovery after midnight tornadoes
By Christine Anne Piesyk | May 3, 2008 |
- Red Cross scrambles to aid storm victims
- Palmyra families “lucky to be alive”
- Tornado shreds Fairgrounds Pavilion
- Massive clean-up underway across southern Montgomery County
The day after a night of storms dawned with many families still without power and emergency response teams pouring into Montgomery County to undertake the task of restoring power, removing downed trees from power lines and roadways, and setting the process of recovery in place. Weather officials estimate that four F-1 tornadoes touched down across the county, three hitting the Palmyra area. The fourth hit Clarksville. F-1s have winds ranging from 86-110 miles per hour.
No place was the pressure felt more than at the Clarksville-Montgomery County Chapter of the American Red Cross, which just two weeks ago sustained a disaster of their own when an arsonist torched the agency’s Emergency Response Vehicle [ERV] filled with disaster response equipment. Faced with the devastation of a tornado, its victims, and a horde of emergency responders to assist, Red Cross volunteers rallied, utilizing many of their own resources in the first hours after the disaster. «Read the rest of this article»
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