Wind damage

The machine shed is destroyed and a Morton building damaged on the rural-Herndon, Kansas, farmstead of Karol "Cork" Riener in a fast-moving summer thunder and wind storm about 8 p.m., Sunday, July 10. Riener's stepdaughter, 13-year-old Kayla Hughes, who was home alone while other family members (Cork, Jacque and Jeff Riener) were cutting wheat, took shelter inside the cab of a pickup after driving it into the Morton building to protect it from the on-coming storm. She looked up and watched the roof peel off the building, Jacque said. The chicken house took a direct hit from machine shed debris, and debris from the shed caught in nearby trees and flew into a neighbor's wheat field. A cow shed was moved 100 yards and destroyed, but it missed the house.

Photos courtesy Jacqueline B. Riener