No stop light nor street lights after early evening storms 2018-07-20 - Corner Jamestown Street and Russell Road - Photo by Linda Waggener, ColumbiaMagazine.com. This corner is normally brightly lighted from Five Star and CVS, looking toward Jeffries Hardware and Franklin Nissan at the Russell Road intersection. Power to this area of Columbia was knocked out in the early evening on the first or second wave of storms to pass over Adair County Friday, July 19, 2018. When full darkness came and still no restored lights, business calls were arriving at Dispatch requesting extra police surveillance until the lights were back on. - LW Comments? | Click here to share, print, or bookmark this photo.

Wildlife of Adair County, KY - solemn deer on Lampton Lane 2018-07-20 - Lampton Lane, Columbia, Adair County, KY - Photo by Linda Waggener, ColumbiaMagazine.com. This encounter happened about half way across Lampton Lane which connects Edmonton Road to Greensburg Road a few miles out of Columbia. The Buck was standing proudly in the middle of someone's soybean field, backlighted by a bit of sunset exposed as dark storm clouds passed over western Adair County. - LW Comments? | Click here to share, print, or bookmark this photo.

Bearwallow United Methodist Church after the storm 2018-07-20 - Bearwallow United Methodist Church, 6030 Liberty Road, Columbia, Adair Co., KY - Photo by Gola Burton. Fierce storm clouds draw the eye upward to the sky, then to the steeple of Bearwallow Methodist Church. The front newly remodeled church entry was reflected in the rain soaked parking area after the first round of storms Friday. July 20, 2018 when photographer Gola Burton caught this picture. - LW Comments? | Click here to share, print, or bookmark this photo.

After the Storm 19 Jul 2018 2018-07-20 - Columbia, KY - Photo by Theresa Ingermann. The view from Walker Street, Columbia, of beautiful skies after this evening's storms passed through. Comments? | Click here to share, print, or bookmark this photo.

Stormy evening 20 Jul 2018, in New Columbia Greater Bliss 2018-07-20 - Hurt & Jamestown Street, Columbia, KY - Photo by Ed Waggener, ColumbiaMagazine.com. The Transformer outage was not affecting the traffic signal at Hurt & Jamestown Street, and most of the open retail outlets, including Family Dollar and Fiesta Mexico were on at 6:54pmCT, one block away from the still darkened Jamestown & Russell Road Corner. -EW Read More... | Comments? | Click here to share, print, or bookmark this photo.

Stormy evening 20 Jul 2018, in New Columbia Greater Bliss 2018-07-20 - Jamestown Street at Russell Road, Columbia, KY - Photo by Ed Waggener, ColumbiaMagazine.com. This photo, at 6:53pmCT, was taken when lights were off in a large part of Columbia, including the traffic signal at the intersection of Jamestown Street & Russell Road, reportedly due to a transformer outage. In the middle right of this frame, a stop light at Jamestown Street & Hurt Street was on, as were lights in the IGA Shopping Center, McDonald's the Fiesta Mexico shopping center, and beyond. Lights appeared to be off - except for solar powered porch, garage and lawn lamps - on Russell Road to Westlake Drive, in College Park, Miller Avenue, and Jamestown Street North almost to Hometown Liquors, where lights were on. - EW Read More... | Comments? | Click here to share, print, or bookmark this photo.

Stormy afternoon 20 Jul 2018, in New Columbia Greater Bliss 2018-07-20 - from New Columbia/Greater Bliss, Adair County, KY - Photo by Miss Victoria Pike of Miss Vickys Pampered Angus Ranch. "It's been a stormy time in New Columbia/Greater Bliss, as seen here from my little spread, Miss Vicky's Pampered Angus Ranch. And strange, with the beautiful double rainbow, dark threatening clouds off in the directions of Old Columbia." - VICTORIA PIKE. Paired Photo. See: Vicky Pike: Double Rainbow 2nd day in a row in New Columbia/GB Read More... | Comments? | Click here to share, print, or bookmark this photo.

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