NWS Confirms Tornado Blew Through Western Michigan

April 27, 2011 3:27 PM

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ALLEGAN COUNTY (WWJ) - Folks in Western Michigan’s Allegan County are thankful that no one was killed following a vicious tornado that swept through their area on Tuesday night.

The National Weather Service confirmed the twister touched down, causing damage to the Deboer Turkey Farm and trailers in the area.

Kyle Windemuller, co-owner of Windscapes Landscaping in Allegan County, said although his business was also damaged in the twister, he’s thankful no one was killed.

“The storm happened about 5:30, six o’clock, somewhere in between there, and that’s typically when we are all getting back from the job site. Nobody was outside, so that is just a miracle. We just want to thank the Lord for that,” Windemuller said.

Not too far from Windemuller’s Landscaping business is DeBoer’s Turkey Farm, where two barns were toppled by the storm and demolished — sending 40,000 turkeys running amok throughout the night. Incredibly, most of the turkeys survived. Family, friends, and members of the community came to the farm on Wednesday to help in the tiresome efforts of herding the turkeys to safer structures.

According to CBS affiliate WWMT, debris from the farm blew nearly a half mile away. Damage is estimated to be as high as $1 million.

“We’ve got about a quarter of our roof gone but we noticed this morning that the rest of our roof is buckled like it almost all lifted up on one side. We got water coming into the shop and it went through insulated walls so all of that will have to be cleaned out,” Windemuller said.

Evidence of the storm was very visible Wednesday morning, with things outside in a disarray. Windemuller described his family’s fight for survival.

“My dad, who is the owner of the company, he grabbed his granddaughter, handed her to my sister, and then they jumped underneath the desk. Her husband jumped on top of them and then my dad took shelter underneath another desk,” Windemuller said.

View the storm’s aftermath in these photos provided by Kyle Windemuller.

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NWS Confirms Tornado Blew Through Western Michigan

Jim Martin

wow…the NWS confirmed t he tornado….could they have decided they were no tornadoes…our local TV stations do a much better job than these overstaffed Gov types Hi I am from the government to help you.

NMark

Well said. The authorities probably had to do on on site inspection to make sure that the property owner did not cause this with bombs, wind machines, cannon fire, etc.

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[...] With the strength and seeming vengeance of some kind of turkey-hating god, a tornado hit a Western Michigan turkey farm Tuesday night sending “40,000 turkeys running amok throughout the night.” [...]
jo

It is HAARP people… plain and simple.
libsequaljoke

40000 libs on the loose
mfm123

Yep MI is union country, anybody surprised that 40.000 turkeys-uh pols-go berserk?
Autoamerican

Turkeys running amok?

Are they sure this isn’t Washington D.C.?
spooky2626

The liberals will blame Bush.
beau

They stupid anyway ..turkeys would stand , drink water till they drown
Divina Gracia

free range turkeys probably bring more moey anyway….
TruthMeister

“Nobody was outside, so that is just a miracle. We just want to thank the Lord for that,”

I guess God doesn’t like folks in NC too much.

40K turkeys? Holy moly. Like herding cats I say.
Ginny King

I’m surprised. I thought the turkeys were in Wisconsin

david mcwilliams

unfortunately, we have LIEberals everywhere.

http://thedailyconservative.net/2011/04/27/tornado-hits-farm-40000-turkeys-run-amok/ TORNADO HITS FARM: 40,000 TURKEYS ‘RUN AMOK’ | The Daily Conservative

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Linda

Where are the pictures of the turkeys? The headline says 40,000 Turkeys ‘Run Amok’ and no pictures of turkeys? The destruction is terrible and devastating to all those affected and we feel their pain but we’ve seen it over and over. Please show us the turkeys!
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Andrea Margrave

What struck me the most about this article was the fact that it was surprisingly well written. So much of what is put online these days is sloppy, incomplete, and with horrendous spelling. This article was actually pleasing to read. Too bad there isn’t an author listed. Kudos!
Jerzey Boy

Better check and make sure not the turkeys registered to vote in Detroit were injured, BHO needs them.
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George G

Where is PETA? Having these turkeys in captivity is bad enough, then to have the trama of the storm, only to have them placed in captivity again. There must be tremendous psychological damage here.
Mike G.

You don’t see em because they went flying
wisdom wise

go ahead call me a right wing fanatic :

abortion laws and gay marriage laws are responsible.

GOD IS NOT ” BLESSING AMERICA ” AND CANNOT !

CHANGE GOD’S LAW and God cannnot protect .

we have a radical liberal despot in the whitehouse whom liberal america voted for.

THEREFORE………….. these tornado’s are just the beginning of god’s protective hand being removed from america.

We are enslaved to a despot !
Mark Carlton

Forty thousand turkeys running amok sounds like just another day at the office.
Hank Warren

Global warming, yet another violation of our rights. Add it to the list of gov’t violations of our right:
They violate the 1st Amendment by placing protesters in cages, banning books like “America Deceived II” and censoring the internet.
They violate the 2nd Amendment by confiscating guns.
They violate the 4th and 5th Amendment by molesting airline passengers.
They violate the entire Constitution by starting undeclared wars for foreign countries.
Impeach Obama and sweep out the Congress.
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