Since Dodge Elementary dismisses at 2:00 on Wednesdays, Wally had some time to be a tourist around the city of Grand Island. First Wally visited Tornado Hill. In 1980, seven tornadoes, one an F4, touched down in the Grand Island. They did a lot of damage. Dodge Elementary even had some damage. The story Night of the Twisters by Ivy Ruckman was written about this event in Grand Island's history. Debris that could not be recycled was burned and buried in a park. The base of the hill was a hole 6-8 feet deep and nearly 200 feet across, and the hill is 40 feet high. Since Grand Island is prairie flat land, Tornado Hill is a great place to go sledding in the winter.
Wally made a second stop at Stuhr Museum of the Prairie Pioneer. It is a living history museum so there are displays for people to see. You can also go to the Railroad Town and see how things were done in pioneer days. Every year we take a field trip to a different part of the town - the Native American earthlodge, a pioneer home, the farm, and this year we visited the schoolhouse. We pretended that we were students at a prairie school in 1888. Wally didn't think he would like using a privy (outhouse).
Well bet Wally had a lot of fun and learned to.That was good that wally learned about the praire.
ReplyDeleteWOW! seven tornados went over tornado hill in one day? Thats a lot of tornados! In PA we had a nautrul disater like that too. It is called the Johnstown flood. Except it was not a tornado.What natrul disasters happend in your state? When and how did it happen?=]
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