Greetings and welcome!
In my limited travels I have seen minimal damage from last week’s storm. Yesterday when I went up to Benson Lake Rd on Parkway (Hwy I), there were only a couple of trees down here and there. The ride back down Harper and Old J found the same thing. There were a couple down between Old J and F along Hwy C.
The heavy rain caused a lot of gravel road edges and places with gradient to was out little gulleys. That was the majority of storm damage that I saw up there.
I suspect that there is more damage south. There were reports of trees down in Crooked Lake and a TV news report showed some in Crivitz too.
Yes Shaffer’s Restaurant near Crivitz did burn down. It was the chicken place for a lot of people. They haven’t declared it a total loss yet, but it is pretty badly damaged. It is not clear if it was lightning from the big storms or another source that started the fire. They are still working on that. There was a lot of powerful lightning with the storm, so it is certainly a possibility.
It was a cool one last night, with a low of 43. I actually started a small fire in the wood burner that morning to take the chill off. That might happen again soon, later in the week we are looking at a chance of highs in the mid 50s and a shot at some frost, or at least pretty cold nights.
On that note, I am off to cut some firewood while it is still 70 & sunny.
Have a good week and thank you for visiting!
RJB
Ray, where are you? Were not hearing from you enough.
Ray, thanks for the reports, we really appreciate them. We miss your fish fry….
Hopefully we can catch up with you this fall
Mike