Submitted by Martha J Banks
I was in high school in Fort Wayne then. We weren't hit, but electricity was out for a few days, as I recall. And most of the cottages on the east side of Lake Pleasant [between Fremont & Orland] were destroyed. Fortunately for us, our cottage was on the north side, right on the state line.
There was a tiny lake near Lake Pleasant, maybe called Giliad Lake, where some cows went missing & were presumed in the lake, so the lake was dredged. At Lake Pleasant, there was one old cottage still standing while the ones of either side were gone by the time I saw the area, about a month later. Unless that cottage has been torn down in the last 25 years, you can see it still, with newer ones on each side.
And a Facebook friend, a classmate from K-12, posted yesterday she was a fairly new driver then & driving her parents back to Fort Wayne from Dayton OH. The dark clouds were to her north for many miles & she kept praying they would stay there, which they did.
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| Lake Pleasant, Indiana Photo: Fujita, Monthly Weather Review |
I was in high school in Fort Wayne then. We weren't hit, but electricity was out for a few days, as I recall. And most of the cottages on the east side of Lake Pleasant [between Fremont & Orland] were destroyed. Fortunately for us, our cottage was on the north side, right on the state line.
There was a tiny lake near Lake Pleasant, maybe called Giliad Lake, where some cows went missing & were presumed in the lake, so the lake was dredged. At Lake Pleasant, there was one old cottage still standing while the ones of either side were gone by the time I saw the area, about a month later. Unless that cottage has been torn down in the last 25 years, you can see it still, with newer ones on each side.
And a Facebook friend, a classmate from K-12, posted yesterday she was a fairly new driver then & driving her parents back to Fort Wayne from Dayton OH. The dark clouds were to her north for many miles & she kept praying they would stay there, which they did.