1945 (Tuesday) – I went up to the library for an hour or two, went to the bank then home. When Dad (Alfred Oscar Lunt) got up, we went to the post office to send a parcel to Eva (Eva Ruth Lunt), then over to see Cleo Reid. Just as we were about to have dinner, Sister Erekson came in and we invited her to have dinner with us. She seemed to enjoy it very much and we certainly enjoyed having her with us.
While writing, I forgot to mention two freak storms we had on Sunday, the first right after breakfast, it thundered and lightning and the wind was almost a hurricane for several minutes, then it calmed down again. The second storm was after ten o’clock at night. I was all ready for bed, but decided it would be impossible to go to sleep, so I might as well remain up until the storm subsides. For fifteen or twenty minutes, the thunder and lightning raged, then it began to hail. It beat upon the west window in the dining room so hard I was afraid it would break the glass, my husband went out and brought in some hail as large as a marble and as hard as ice, later he found some that were square, like small ice cubes.
Since then we have learned that in some districts the damage was terrible, even tearing down tombstones in the cemetery and exhuming some bodies. One family, a man and wife, had to be rescued through a window from their home as the waters poured in through the windows and doors. At the airport, several airplanes were badly damaged, some of them being carried over the fence around the airport. About $500.000, at least, damage was done.
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