THE FOLLOWING IS A NEWS GAZETTE ARTICLE BY JENNIFER BAILEY
ABOVE: Rentals continued Monday at Kickapoo Adventures in Kickapoo State Park, Oakwood. (Jennifer Bailey/The News-Gazette)
DANVILLE — Even before Thursday’s now-confirmed tornado at Kickapoo State Park, heavy rains had limited some Kickapoo Adventures activities due to high river levels.
Then the rental and bar and grill buildings got hit with another whammy, as the buildings’ roofs and hundreds of trees throughout the park were damaged by what the National Weather Service classified as an EF-1 tornado, which packed 110 mph winds.
“We’re not whole,” owner Julie Monahan said Monday. “We need (the public) to rally around us. We need people to know, we’re alive.”
The weather service said an EF1 tornado traveled 13.6 miles through Vermilion County on Thursday night, damaging an estimated 250 trees at Kickapoo.
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