We had some close lightning the other night with seven tenths of an inch rain. Drove past my neighbors to the north the next morning and fairly good size pieces of a cottonwood tree had been blown across the road by lightning. There was a chunk of tree maybe 15 feet long by 12 inches wide by 3-4 inches thick laying on the ground under the tree. Happened at about 2:30 AM. The tree is about twenty feet from their house. They probably had trouble getting to sleep after that one! Then the next night the neighbor a half mile south of me went to do chores in the morning and found half the hog confinement roof sucked off and scattered in his corn field, with the corn flattened. A couple of trees were snapped in his grove but that's all the damage there was. The size of the damaged area was only about 1/8 mile long by four hundred feet wide. The building was about 300 feet from his house and the storm didn't even wake him or his wife. Jim
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Today's Featured Article - A Brief History of Tractors in Australia - by Bob Kavanagh. After Captain Cook's exploration of the east coast in 1770 the British Government decided to establish a penal colony in Australia. The first fleet arrived in 1788 and consisted mainly of convicts who were poorly equipped and new little of farming techniques. The colony remained far from self-supporting and it was not until the early 1800's that things started to improve. Free settlers started to arrive, they followed the explorers across the mountains and where land was suitable set up farms. T
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