Tornado Alley #1, 2010 Wood County Traditional Cache
Hidden : 6/16/2012
Difficulty:
1 out of 5
Terrain:
1.5 out of 5

Size: Size: micro (micro)

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Cache is located in the direct path of the tornado that hit Wood County on June 5th 2010.  Cache can be driven right up to.  Do not attempt to get from Highway.  Spot was chosen to remember those that perished and all those that rallied around the victims of the tornado.  Bring your own writing utensil. Congrats to Ohiosiouxfan for FTF.

Car smashed This is one of two caches that will put you in the direct path of the June 5th 2010 tornado that hit Wood County just before midnight. It hit up to a 4 on the scale of 0-5 and I believe it had seven fatalities with over fifty homes destroyed, the Lake High School destroyed and the Lake Township Emergency Services/Police building destroyed. It threw a bus over 50 yards and wrapped cars around trees. As you drive to both caches you can still see the bare trees and empty foundations two years later. It was unbelievable to see the damage but fantastic to see all the neighboring communities pitching in to help out anyway they could in the next few weeks. There is a road that will take you directly to the cache so do not attempt from the highway. You will need to bring a writing utensil. As you stand at the cache, facing southwest, across the highway 795, you will see a church and just right of that is the area of Moline that was hit hard and then the tornado came across the church parking lot knocking down their sign. As you drove up to this cache you had to notice the damage as it went down this road going west. The Lake Township Police Chief Mark Hummer gave permission for this cache to be placed.

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