Still-Stunned Residents Sift Through Wreckage

Not Vern and Louedna Huber of eastern Lake County. Vern, 87, and Louedna, 81, stayed at their battered home nearly all day, picking through the contents of their overturned garage. Amid the rasp of chain saws and pounding of hammers, [Charlie Crist] praised the residents and charitable groups who ar...

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Published inMcClatchy - Tribune Business News p. 1
Main Author Lindsay Peterson, Adam Emerson and Todd Leskanic
Format Newsletter
LanguageEnglish
Published Washington Tribune Content Agency LLC 04.02.2007
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Crist, Charles
Storm damage
Tornadoes
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Summary:Not Vern and Louedna Huber of eastern Lake County. Vern, 87, and Louedna, 81, stayed at their battered home nearly all day, picking through the contents of their overturned garage. Amid the rasp of chain saws and pounding of hammers, [Charlie Crist] praised the residents and charitable groups who are helping the region clean up. Neighboring Marion County sent a group of low-risk inmates, dressed in green-and-white striped jail clothes. Among the storms' first victims were 18 endangered young whooping cranes that were led south from Wisconsin in the fall as part of a project to create a second migratory flock. The cranes, found dead after the storms passed, were being kept in an enclosure at the Chassahowitzka National Wildlife Refuge near Crystal River.