Posted by Plantlady
on May 10, 2009, 9:12 am, in reply to "Checking in after the disaster"
This newspaper has no power, so they used laptops and took photos and had the paper printed in KY.
http://www.southernillinoisan.com/articles/2009/05/10/front_page/doc4a0631f72a84d883722861.txt
Of note in the article: "Some have described the weather event as an "inland hurricane," Smith said, but while the system's strong winds and calm eye are reflective of a hurricane or tropical storm, the system was a meso cyclone."
Some businesses now have installed generators and are operating.
http://www.mariondaily.com/homepage/x2133278360
The destruction here is unimaginable. 
It is so amazing that there was only one fatality.
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