20th Anniversary Andover Tornado

[Greg Stumpf]

I don't recall seeing that building the last time I was there, but glad they have one. But the shelter that was there in 1991 was an underground bunker. They dug it out and filled the hole with the swimming pool.

 

[John Hudson]

I don't recall seeing that building the last time I was there, but glad they have one. But the shelter that was there in 1991 was an underground bunker. They dug it out and filled the hole with the swimming pool.

And all this time I thought the brick one was the original! Funny, I can remember someone saying it was underground, and wondered why it wasn't.

John
VE4 JTH

 

[Michael Riedl]

My uncle's house was the first house towards the west of the housing division that got hit by the tornado. He made it home from work with 4 minutes to spare he said before the tornado damaged his house. The bedrooms, which are also on the west side, had tree limbs through the walls, which were somehow still standing. His roof was completely gone, his refrigerator was in the front lawn, and shards of glass where in the walls. A day later while my dad and my uncle were in the house the City of Andover came and said it was not safe, and that it would be destroyed. They had 2 hours to get all the rest of their valuables out of the house then they bull dozed it infront of my uncle and his family/.