News Bulletin (Castroville, Tex.), Vol. 35, No. 16, Ed. 1 Thursday, April 21, 1994 Page: 2 of 8
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18 inch high lid that he says was under cate storms also reacted to the storm
the mobile home closed when the storm Usually the figure, woman or man,
began and wm still under the trailer goesjustbeyondtheirrespectivedoors
when the storm wm over but by then of the little house; just before the
the box was open with the edge of the storm the man had gone all the way:
trailer resting on the open top. Other- out, halfway to the woman's door,
wise the wooden box wm undamaged. As dart fell on the destruction
Pagel had a red race car sitting in left by the stocm, riran effons
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half, through a neighbor's window lights and provided lightin one small
,0 about 30 yards away. area of the entire subdivision.
“I wm in the trailer with my By Monday, the bathroom floor
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She said the restaurant lost no food tricity up the hill from Castroville but
because after closing a little early, they with the power out, their water was
iced everything down and continued to out
check it throughout the night to keep "We had a great time," Ire said,
the food cold. "We had live entertainment and the
"Weserved withcandles,"shesaid. most beautiful women here."
"We'reusedtoitaroundhere.Wehave Fernando Medrano of Jimbo's -
some emergency lights and escort said they also stayed open during the '
people with flashlights to the blackoutandopenedtheirfreezerinto 7
rentrooms." tire cooler to help keep the food from
She said they have a gas generator spoiling,
thathelpedsomewhattogetsomelights "We were able to keep servo*,"
on in critical areas but there’s even an he said. “I worked on the gm grill but
ead to that source of power, we didn't have fryers." .
"When werealizedhowbadit was Medrano said they taro some-,
we closed,"Tschirhan said. "Business rwargency lighasandusedflashligts:
is slow when there are no tights out toenterplaceslikethefreczerthathasi
front." no emergency back-up. He admits:
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now foe violence and power of foe home. Pagel sidthosormsarted
ntormwhenit moved hismobile home skmn5:30pm. ndreofoeslMricity
went out and he saw a black cloud
thus to crane tack in the boom but a
when they didn't, he walked as last as ae
he could toward the bedroom to grab diii
a mattress and pull it over him About 8
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jerking and hitting the ground." he
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the books, and videos in the home. -
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house. He said the wind began to pick "Itrainedfiveorsix minutesun- .Wanonn
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By the windows to check on my neighbor ing and putting the mobile home back
F because he's disabled. All I could see on its mounts had begun.
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■ Twelve hours without electricity taurant wasn’t bothered by the elec
E were not as devastating to the local trical failure in Castroville as areas
restaurant industry as might be expected above the canal are served by Medina
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time and workers Saturday, Sunday The AmericanRed Cross hases-
1 year on the same day he almost had "Now I'm trying to get a lean to :
his home destroyed in the violent get the trailer up off the ground,’'tee
I storm thathitPiooeer Village,Friday. said Monday "Someone donated a I
It wm tike nothing you ever window to replace the raw that was I
want to experience again, "hesaid. “It broken, but most of our money MM
wasvery scary." to payments and utilities. After foot
Nystrom said he was alone in the we're at the Lord's mercy."
Ann Tschirhart of Sammy's said usually reserve were filled up with
Aey had 30 people in to celebrate a people who couldn't leave."
birthday during the midst of the Nack- The rare commodity they were
out and the party wm not impacted denied wm water. Over *00 gallons
paaaedoa toward San Antonio, Friday, and wort gloves were where he had.
he called his family in to help with foe left them but heavier things were scat-,
disaster. Other neighbors did the same tered all over the yard.
and by Saturday they had organized He says just before foe worm hit-
themselves into neighborhood wort he saw his plexi-glass type windows,
teams that went from house to house bowing inward but they didn't break,
taking care of the most dangerous prob- A barometric pressure souvenir his
lems first and then beginning with the sister brought home from Germany
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Barnes, Thomas. News Bulletin (Castroville, Tex.), Vol. 35, No. 16, Ed. 1 Thursday, April 21, 1994, newspaper, April 21, 1994; Castroville, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1593971/m1/2/: accessed June 27, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Castroville Public Library.