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Standing on Mathews Drive at the Casey's Store
corner on Highway 69, looking west toward Gilbert, which is a
mile away. The road is closed because several power poles are
broken, down, and lying across the road. Plus the utility
company was working along the road. |
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A broken power pole on the south side of Mathews
Drive, not far from Highway 69. Camera faces west, southwest. |
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A broken and fallen power pole on the south side
of Mathews Drive, about a quarter mile from Highway 69. Camera
faces west, southwest. |
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A broken and fallen power pole on the south side
of Mathews Drive, about a quarter mile from Highway 69. Camera
faces east, southeast with the Casey's corner dead ahead.. |
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The Merrill and Jean Swanson home on the south
side of Mathews Drive halfway between Gilbert and Highway 69.
Standing southwest of the house, camera facing northeast. |
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The Swanson home. The tornado blew the garage
away and took part of the roof of the house. It also broke the
back window of the car. Standing on the west side of the house.
Camera faces east. |
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The machine shed at the Swanson farm no longer
exists except for the wood timbers and metal scraps. Some of the
equipment is damaged and now exposed to the weather. |
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A gravity wagon for hauling grain was damaged by
the tornado. |
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A utility track crane and cable supports a
leaning, damaged power pole on the south side of Mathews Drive
across the road from the baseball and softball diamonds. This
part of Mathews Drive all the way east to the Casey's corner, a
mile away, was closed to through traffic. Camera faces east, and
slightly northeast. |
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The tornado hit the Charlson homeplace on the
gravel road (Gretten Street) three-quarters of a mile
south of the high school. The house was vacant, had undergone
remodeling, but was not damaged. The basketball post and
backboard had fallen to the ground. Camera faces east. |
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The windmill at the Charlson homeplace collapsed
on the garage. The place is now owned by Dr. Pollard, a dentist
from Boone. He bought it from a big-time Ames developer, Ev
Cochrane, who had bought it from Rita (Charlson) Durham in June
of 2004. That same summer, Rita and her husband Jim moved to
Texas, and Ev died. |
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The tornado leveled the Pollard silo, strewing
the bricks due east. The roof of the steel grain bin was dented.
The camera faces north. |
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Rubble from the Pollard machine shed and damaged
trees frame the distant scene of the new housing development a
quarter of a mile away and Gilbert's watertower in the main
section of town. |
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Damaged trees at the Pollard farm frame the
distant scene of the new housing development a quarter of a mile
away and Gilbert's watertower in the main section of town. |
