A tornado ripped apart a family barn Saturday just outside of Dexter in Cowley Co. KAKE News spoke with the owner of the barn, Jim Lindley, shortly after the twister passed through. He said he and his mother never expected to lose the barn this way. “We built this house and she’s lived here. 40 some years. I thought she would be okay. We have a good safe place in the basement. But I was not prepared for this,” Lindley said. “This was a century farm and a family over 120 years old and finally the buildings aren’t that old, but we tried to take care of the place and keep it up and it’s just really just depressing and disappointing to see this much damage.” Cowley County emergency management said Saturday night much of the area was without power due to high winds snapping off the power poles. To the east in Elk County, heavy rains led to flooding conditions in some places. At one point forcing the closure of Highway 160 between Elk Falls and Longton. And Kansas wasn’t alone, the storms ripped across several states in the Midwest this weekend, including Nebraska, Iowa and Oklahoma, where the state Governor, Kevin Stitt, said that four people have died.
Source: KAKE – News
