- Repairs complete on historic church towers
- June 2, 2007
- It’s funny the things you learn when a microburst knocks down part of your church, a construction worker gets stranded at the top, and then you knock down part of the church only to rebuild it.
- Losing touch
- June 1, 2007
- To the editor: In spring of 2005, I was so relieved to see that a stand of silver maples and oaks upwards of 100 years old on the north-facing hill toward the Campanile survived the microburst.
- Final brick tower repaired at church
- April 28, 2007
- The congregation at Plymouth Congregational Church, 925 Vt., has reason to celebrate this weekend. Friday afternoon, construction crews repaired the last of eight brick towers damaged by a microburst on March 12, 2005.
- Lawrence microburst - one year later
- March 12, 2007
- Around 8 am on Sunday, March 12th, 2006 - a microburst with straight line winds in excess of 80 mph tore through the city - damaging scores of buildings and causing an estimated 8 million dollars in damage.
- KU still picking up the pieces from microburst
- March 12, 2007
- School officials have made headway on a lot of projects related to the March 12th, 2006 microburst, but there is still work to be done…
- EMS chief stays positive after injuries
- March 11, 2007
- It has been a year of setbacks for Ted McFarlane, former deputy chief of Lawrence-Douglas County Fire & Medical, whose lower legs were crushed in an accident March 12, 2006.
- A year later, microburst’s sudden fury still evident
- March 12 storm caused $8M damage in Lawrence
- March 11, 2007
- March 12, 2006, was a memorable day. The Kansas University men’s basketball team was crowned Big 12 Tournament champions with an 80-68 win over Texas. However, some Lawrence residents couldn’t watch the game on television because they had no electricity.
- Refunds ordered in ‘arborist’ case
- Work by D&L Tree Co. came after March microburst
- February 20, 2007
- An Ozawkie man has agreed to refund more than $5,400 to two Lawrence residents who say they received shoddy or incomplete repair work at their homes damaged during a microburst nearly a year ago.
- State approves funding KU microburst repairs
- The microburst caused about $5.5 million damage to 73 buildings
- December 14, 2006
- The microburst caused about $5.5 million damage to 73 buildings.
- Danforth Chapel is open again
- Roof repaired after damage from last spring’s microburst
- October 20, 2006
- Roof repaired after damage from last spring’s microburst.
- After storm, family sees no quick fix
- ‘Unsafe’ home doesn’t qualify for insurance
- July 12, 2006
- Flora Taylor and her family are caught between a broken wooden beam and the hard place they were put in by the March 12 microburst that hit Lawrence.
- KU hopes to get more than $3M from FEMA
- May 12, 2006
- Kansas University hopes to receive about $3.3 million from the Federal Emergency Management Agency to cover the bulk of the damage caused by the March 12 microburst.
- ‘Microburst’ gains little local cachet
- April 24, 2006
- Most natural disasters get things named after them: water park rides, alcoholic drinks, university mascots. Or they become the subject of countless numbers of songs and poems.
- No appropriation for KU cleanup this session
- April 19, 2006
- There will be no budget amendment from Gov. Kathleen Sebelius to pay for repairs at Kansas University from the March 12 storm.
- Federal disaster relief coming to county
- April 14, 2006
- President Bush declared a state of disaster Thursday in Douglas and Wyandotte counties, where a storm last month ripped roofs off homes and businesses and damaged buildings at Kansas University.
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