That second photo is significant. It’s the only pic I’ve seen from Hesston that shows anchor bolts.So I recently picked up a copy of Year of the Storms: The Destructive Kansas Weather of 1990 By Howard Inglish and I must say, it's a really good book. Highly recommend it for anyone looking for nonfiction meteorology books, and it also portrays just how violent Kansas' 1990 tornado season really was.
Some tidbits I found interesting about Hesston, Goessel and Emporia:
Hesston Decorating Center was completely destroyed. The steel frame of the building was crunched and mangled, and at Troyer's Furniture Restoration steel beams were "torn from the concrete in which they had been set". Numerous homes were swept away (including at least one that was purportedly well constructed) in rural areas outside of Hesston, and the basement of the home where Judy and Jennifer DeWitt survived the tornado was "mud-drenched" (scouring?)
Goessel swept away a well-anchored home belonging to Linden and Dorene Thiessen. The home was not even two years old, as the couple had just rebuilt after losing their previous home (a mobile home) to a fire in 1987.
Yet another tornado (Emporia on June 7) swept an anchor bolted home down to its basement while other homes were leveled. For some reason that tornado was stuck with an F2 rating... I'll let that speak for itself.
There are pictures of Hesston Decorating Center, and the homes in Goessel and Emporia in the book, though not sure if I can post them here (if I can I'll update my post to include them). I also don't wanna spoil the entire book lol
And while on the topic of Hesston this appears to be a swept away home at first glance, though I strongly suspect the second photo is of the same home before cleanup
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