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Squawk Box Continued from pageto1 a resident about it. What I heard him
Remembering the past
had been in Hernando. I stopped and started talking
tell me made me cringe. He said there was in fact a tornado in Hernando… because, and I
quote, “I saw the swirling air with my own eyes.”
Now having an eyewitness in journalism is like winning the lottery. It allows me to
state facts without being the expert. I love having eyewitnesses. Except this time!
Public Service Announcement follows: If you can see the swirling of air because of a torna-
do… YOU’RE TOO CLOSE! Gentle readers, if you hear of a tornado or strong windstorm
heading in your general direction… seek shelter immediately! Wind is invisible, if you can
see it contains flying debris whirling around at hundreds of miles per hour. Please, I don’t
need eyewitnesses that badly, I’ll rely on radar studies, OK? We now return you to your
regularly scheduled programming…
River Disconnect - This aerial photo from the Inglis lock looking west toward the Gulf
gives a good understanding of the layout of the land. Down the middle of the picture is
the western terminus of the deauthorized Cross Florida Barge Canal. On the lower to up-
per right side you can see Hwy 40 E going into Inglis and the Withlacoochee River just to
the left of Hwy 40. In the fore ground is the bypass spillway where the lower Withlacoochee
River flows through Inglis and Yankeetown receiving it s only water from Lake Rousseau
and the old river bed. Just above and to the left of the spillway but on the right side of the
Fairground entrance underwater:
canal you can see the “plug” put in the river when the barge canal dissected the river in half
A stop sign stands in moot protest on
starting in 1964. To the left of the plug is the upper part of our river that runs up to the main
the entrance road to the Citrus County Fairgrounds last week after two days of storm fronts
spillway at Lake Rousseau. Looking up the picture on the left of the canal but east of the
moved through the area, for a time leaving the fairground entrance under a foot of water.
barge canal bridge is Lake Phil in Felburn Park on the Greenways and Trails. This lake was
TheNewscaster/Mike Moore
an old mine pit destined to be a marina but cutting the plug would have breached the aquifer.
Vacant Mobile Home Destroyed
Felburn Foundation rescued the area by purchase and donated it first to Citrus County and
Just after 6 AM Tuesday (March 29) firemen got a dispatch call out to a mobile
then to the state. On the other side of the Hwy 19 canal bridge you can see Holcim mine to
home fire at 216 Sandi St Inglis. Firemen from Inglis and Yankeetown responded to the fully
the left and Cemex mine (Dixie Hollins) on the right. Proposed Port Citrus would be in this
engulfed unoccupied structure that lit up the predawn sky. All that was left of the home was
area. There is an effort to reconnect the river to restore the natural flow back to the Withla-
the base and decks, which was a good opportunity for 2 of the 4 new firemen on the Inglis
coochee since the reduced flow through the bypass has pretty much killed our Outstanding
department to get first hand experience on the end of a fire hose. Inglis fireman William
Florida Waterway. Photo courtesty www.7RiversSkycam.com (see page 3)
Moffett with others observe as new firemen Megan Pike, backed up by Bob Hatfield hose
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