Report: Twister Derails Train in Nebraska
Thursday, May 29, 2008
KEARNEY, Neb. — A civil emergency has been issued in Kearney after a storm carrying several tornadoes rolled through the city.
There were reports Thursday evening of downed trees and power lines, as well as a train derailment just outside of town. There's also reports of damage on the University of Nebraska at Kearney campus and at the county fairgrounds.
The Buffalo County emergency manager has asked all Kearney residents to remain at home Thursday evening. Travel was discouraged because of storm damage in parts of the city.
Nebraska Public Power District spokesman Mark Becker says 12,000 customers were without power in the city Thursday evening.
He said numerous power lines were down in the northwest, northeast and southeast parts of Kearney, and would remains so until a second wave of storms passed. Crews were on standby, "waiting for little safer conditions," he said.
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,360362,00.html Fox...But...Kearney got rolled pretty hard tonite. There are cars stacked in places, and alot of houses destroyed, a ton of people without power, trees and branches down everywhere. There was initially like a 2 block area in town that had power after the storm, and it was all standing room only...for gas, food, everything. Power has been restored in areas. It is unclear yet if it was a tornado or strait line winds or both, that did all the damage.
After going to Omaha early this mearning, I was one decision away from driving home through this. We decided to drive sough to Tecumseh and west from there and avoided it all luckily. We listened to coverage of these storms all day, over ten tornados on the ground in that time, and flash flood warnings again in many areas. Red willow county reservoir is already flooded and releasing water at full capacity too.