[Shotimes] OT - Ill Twister almost gets Four GTO's

[Josh Salaets]

Sounds like there's quite a bit of damage.  Glad to hear everyone's okay
though!!!

I bet your friend's are also relieved about the GTOs and their horses
weathering through the storm okay...

Josh Salaets
95 SHO MTX (See it at: www.cardomain.com/id/sh0gun)
85 Omni GLH-T (Yeah, it's fast)
NWSHOC Member
Aloha (Portland), OR

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Donald Mallinson" <dmall@mwonline.net>
To: <v8sho-request@v8sho.com>
Cc: <v8sho@v8sho.com>; "SHOtimes Mailing List" <shotimes@autox.team.net>
Sent: Sunday, May 11, 2003 3:20 PM
Subject: [Shotimes] OT - Ill Twister almost gets Four GTO's


> A good friend of mine got VERY lucky last night here in
> central Illinois.  As they were eating supper, they heard
> the wind kick up and sirens go off.  They decided to get to
> the basement.  They estimate they had no more than four (4)
> SECONDS after they got to an internal basement hallway than
> their house "popped" and stuff went flying.
>
> They are OK, but a bedroom is mostly gone, room severely
> damaged.
>
> Out side several trees are gone, a shed destroyed, a brand
> new horse trailer severely damaged and a tree went through a
> nice new (to them) used pickup, totalling it. Another older
> car outside was also totalled Their horses are all OK, this
> is a nice thing because last year at this time, they lost a
> prize horse to lightning.
>
> My friend has four nice GTO's (64 convertible, 65,66 and 67
> hardtops) all in very good shape with tri-power (67
> converted for those that keep track of details). and they
> escaped without damage.
>
> THey are a bit shook up.
>
> A young friend of ours brought his family over from a
> neighboring town where they lived in a trailer park! They
> spent most of the evening in our basement. I had never seen
> two kids (about 12 years old) so shook up in my life.  One
> seemed in shock and the other was in a total panic.  They
> had heard sirens, then got a call from the father (our
> friend) who said pack up and get to the Mallinson's house
> NOW.  Drove about 10 miles in driving rain/wind (not really
> a wise choice in retrospect, but I didn't know they were
> doing this until they drove in the driveway with alert
> sirens going off in our town!).
>
> Took an hour or two to calm them down with TV, popcorn and
> finally getting their parents calmed down.  Their trailer
> was OK we found out later.
>
> Wild night, we had no damage and the family is fine, even my
> son Ken in Morton where two tornado's touched down and did
> damage.
>
> I hope this spring is about over.
>
> Don Mallinson