{"id":27683,"date":"2013-11-19T08:34:51","date_gmt":"2013-11-19T13:34:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/deaconsbench\/?p=27683"},"modified":"2016-09-30T15:59:42","modified_gmt":"2016-09-30T19:59:42","slug":"tornado-destroys-catholic-church-in-ohio","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/deaconsbench\/2013\/11\/tornado-destroys-catholic-church-in-ohio\/","title":{"rendered":"Tornado destroys Catholic church in Ohio"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

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Photo: Jetta Fraser\/The Blade<\/small><\/em><\/p>\n

From the Toledo Blade<\/a><\/strong> (h\/t to Norb!):<\/p>\n

Five moderate tornadoes plowed through six counties in northwest Ohio on Sunday, sparing lives but leveling a church, homes, and businesses, and brushing near part of Lake Township ravaged by a much stronger twister in 2010.<\/p>\n

The National Weather Service\u2019s confirmation on Monday of the tornadoes \u2014 which in some cases brought winds in excess of 100 mph \u2014 didn\u2019t surprise Sandy Moore, who said she was locking her front door when she heard what sounded like a train ramming into her Lake Township garage. She ended up on the ground in her living room.<\/p>\n

\u201cAll hell broke loose,\u201d Mrs. Moore said. \u201cIt sounded like the garage exploded, it flipped me back like a vacuum, and you could hear the house cracking and ripping apart.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

From Lima News.com:<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

A member of the church long enough to remember when the building was new, Cathy Heitmeyer stood in disbelief at the rubble made of St. Barbara Catholic Church.<\/p>\n

\u201cFifty years,\u201d Heitmeyer managed, with tears welling in her eyes, when asked how long she\u2019d been a member of the parish.<\/p>\n

It was as if the church had taken the brunt of the storm in an attempt to ease the blow for everyone else, one man in town commented.<\/p>\n

The storm destroyed the church and rectory, but it also flattened homes in the village and damaged other buildings Sunday night.<\/p>\n

A team from the National Weather Service surveyed the damage Monday and classified that an EF-2 tornado had caused the damage. The report said the twister had a path length of eight miles and a path width of 440 yards. The tornado was on the ground for about eight minutes beginning at 4:51 p.m. and touchdown was estimated to have occurred about five miles northeast of Cloverdale before traveling into the community.<\/p>\n

About half the village\u2019s 60 structures sustained some kind of damage, village Mayor Judd Spencer said. No one was injured or killed in the storm.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Below, before and after pictures of the church. \u00a0Pray for this parish!<\/p>\n

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