Giddings Times & News (Giddings, Tex.), Vol. 108, No. 14, Ed. 1 Thursday, September 18, 1997 Page: 4 of 18
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Page 4- Giddings, Texas, Times & News - Thursday, September 18,1997
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MITTIE ROBINSON and
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back porch. Mrs. Robinson
was inside her house when
the twister-like winds hit it
twice within several min-
utes' time. Endiea got home
from cheerleading practice
depositing much of it inside the
branches.
After it hit her house and
quickly passed on over the first
time, she ran to a front window
and saw the swirling wind
move across the road into the
Robert Placke pasture.
"It looked white as snow and
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motion. And it was also a "boo-
merang" storm - it came over
from the northeast, hitting the
back barn and doing some
damage to two wood-frame
CHARLES ETTA Lewis
stands with her granddaugh-
ter Endiea Moore outside
her home which had sections
of the tin roof torn off, as well
as damage to the front and
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Thank you for your support in the special event.
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shortly after the storm had
passed over. A grandson,
Cory Toatley, rode out the
storm with his grandmother.
Neither were injured.
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building. Mittie was in a
nearby house and watched
the storm hit two barns as
well as damage her house
and the one next door.
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The Giddings New Horizons Lions Club would
like to say "THANK YOU" to all the supporters
of our 3rd Annual Chicken Spaghetti Dinner.
A special "THANK YOU" to PIZZA HUT for
donating the bread.
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"It tore the wood trim from injured.
some of the windows and was "It got me so shook up that I
shaking and rocking my had to go to the doctor," said I
house," she said. Mrs. Lewis who had ridden out
Later that evening when she another storm about five years .
took a bath, she said the earlier. That one took the roof *
wooden foundation had been entirely off her house and car-
moved around so much by the ried it over to the other side of
high wind that she felt like the FM 180. She was also home
bathtub was going to fall that time but escaped injury,
through the floor. In the first storm five years
When the winds hit the trailer ago, Mrs. Lewis said she saw it I
house belonging to Lee and coming and quickly sent her v
Verna Mayberry who had gone grandchildren, who were in the
to Giddings to do some shop- house with her, running to a
ping, it broke out three win- brick home further down the
dows and one of the frames road. And she was very glad
DAVID GUYTON and Mittie that damaged several homes across the road, doing even
Robinson stand inside a and barns. The swirling more damage in the same
large barn which had its en- storm crossed FM 180 to the area.
tire roof sucked off in sec- east, made a quick 180-de- - Times & News Photo
tions by a twister-like storm gree turn and came back
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houses nearby next to the farm just swirled around above the
road Then it crossed FM 180, trees, bending them this way
swirled around in a pasture and that," said Mrs. Lewis,
about 100 yards inside the Within a matter of seconds, it
barbed-wire fence and then made a complete turn and
headed back across the road. started back toward her house
This time it ripped the back just a few hundred yards away,
porch off one house, pulled crossing the road once again,
sheets of tin off the roof and "This time it ripped off part of
then struck the big barn about my front porch, and I was
100 yards behind the house, afraid it was going to damage
sending whole sections of the my pickup truck parked in the
roof sailing to the southwest, front yard," she said.
Those sections were deposited She said it blew in the front
in an open pasture several hun- door and soaked her carpeting
dred feet away. from the heavy rain that ac-
it also buckled a TV antenna companied the storm.
on a trailer house about 300 The rotating winds then
yards from the big barn, ripped proceded to take sheets of tin
off every bit of skirting around from the top of her roof and
the home, and jerked all the blow them several hundred feet
newly-installed plumbing work to the northwest into a big oak
loose. The tin skirting was tree where she had her car
probably sucked into the cloud parked in the shade.
because they never found any "It ended up scratching up my
of it afterwards. car instead of hurting my
Charles Etta Lewis was in pickup," she said.
her frame house with her teen- The storm also hit her big
age grandson Cory Toatley bam, pulling whole sections of
when the storm came up the tin roof off and depositing
shortly after 4:30 in the after- the sections on the ground just
noon. about 200 feet to the southwest
"When it first hit, it knocked of her house.
the kitchen door open and I ran "It made a terrific noise," said
up and closed it quickly," said Mrs. Lewis, describing the tor-
Mrs. Lewis. "Then I propped a nadic-like winds.
chair under the door knob so I Mittie Robinson, who was in
could take shelter in a better her house next door just a few
place." hundred feet in front of the
She said she had heard it rip- bam, was also trying to ride out
ping tin off the back barn and the storm which she also de-
piling it up in sheets against a scribed as looking like "fuzzy
big post oak tree nearby and snow."
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from the window hit the bath- she did after what happened. are laying on the ground 300 yards behind her house,
room commode and busted it There were also other reports about 100 yards from the big rode out the storm in the
up. It also crumbled the over- in the FM 180 area and on over barn where it was sucked off house in the background,
hang on the porch. to FM 141 that trees were by a storm that damaged an- Her house had structural
The bam back in the pasture knocked down in places by the other barn and several damage and the home of
hit by the winds belongs to storm last week. houses on FM 180 about 10 Charles Etta Lewis next door
David Guyton. As reported in last week's miles northeast of Giddings, had portions of the roof
..... , , , Times & News two vehicles Mittie Robinson, who heard blown off and damage to the
Electric wiresweresknocked were imaged when • the howling winds ripping front and side porch.
hind the houses and residents treefell across a driveway on
were afraid the horses might be EM 141 north of Giddings.
electrocuted. So they called
Bluebonnet Electric Coopera- GIVES SUBSCRIPTION
tive, but they were told a storm TO MATT KORB
had knocked down lines in the ,0, ,,
Winchester area south of Gid- John and Becky Korb of Gid-
dings and all the crews were dingszare giving a years sub-
out there scnption of the Giddings Times
When Mrs. Lewis' grand- &News to their son. Matt Korb
daughter, Endiea Moore, got of Pemaquid,ME. „
home from cheerleading prac- It18 a just because gift.
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Preuss, L. M., III & True, David G. Giddings Times & News (Giddings, Tex.), Vol. 108, No. 14, Ed. 1 Thursday, September 18, 1997, newspaper, September 18, 1997; Giddings, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1599039/m1/4/: accessed July 10, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Giddings Public Library and Cultural Center.