Windstorm hits Sangre de Cristo Seminary

Saturday evening was a tough night for many in the Westcliffe area and especially for the seminary community as gusting winds reported to be up to 140 mph ravaged trees, power lines, roofs and cars.  Our west window was shattered just after we went to bed. If the wind had hit us earlier, Paul would have been sitting in her chair and would surely have been severely hurt.  The Lord took care of us in many ways! The aftermath left one of students, Ryan Reynolds’ car demolished (see video) and Joanne Canda’s house with a huge tree on top of it (at end of video).

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The video starts out with an interview of Dr. Zeller and later Larry Wilkes and his two daughters.  Ryan’s car is the BMW with two trees on it and Joanne’s house has the large tree on it. They will have to use a crane to get it off. Mark Canda’s bedroom was right under that tree and he could have been killed if their home had not been of an older post and beam construction.

Below is a picture of Ryan’s car.

Here’s is a picture of a tree that was blown over just in front of our Explorer. If it had gone the other direction, my Explorer would have looked like Ryan’s BMW.

Here is a picture of Dr. Zeller and Tim Salcedo installing our new window. Paula is doing cleanup inside.

 

I’ll write more on the windstorm and the great time we had while the power was out after I finish my Hebrew exegesis.