Storm Sat 17 Dec 2016: Dreamland Sign damaged 2016-12-18 - Corner Tutt & Jamestown Streets, Columbia, KY - Photo by Ed Waggener, ColumbiaMagazine.com (c). The sign directing tourists and travelers to Dreamland Motel lost a panel in the storm last night (we think). Anyone with a different notion, just let us know. - EW Read More... | Comments? | Click here to share, print, or bookmark this photo.

Storm Sat 17 Dec 2016: Evergreen down Akin & Tutt Streets II 2016-12-18 - SE Corner, Akin & Tutt Streets, Columbia, KY - Photo by Ed Waggener, ColumbiaMagazine.com (c). Columbia is a fraction less cheery with the loss of one of the largest living "Christmas Trees," the giant half-century plus old evergreen which stood on Tutt Street. The rootwad appears to be 13-15 feet in diameter. The tree was down Sat 17 Dec 2016, at around 11pmCT. The photo was taken Sunday morning. - EW Read More... | Comments? | Click here to share, print, or bookmark this photo.

Storm Sat 17 Dec 2016: Evergreen down Akin & Tutt Streets 2016-12-18 - SE Corner, Akin & Tutt Streets, Columbia, KY - Photo by Ed Waggener, ColumbiaMagazine.com (c). A landmark (spruce? hemlock?) evergreen tree, well over a half-century old, was downed by last night's storm. Akin Street was closed Sunday morning, 18 Dec 2016 when this photo was taken. The residence in the background is known perhaps most widely the Delmar & Mable Upchurch residence. - EW Read More... | Comments? | Click here to share, print, or bookmark this photo.

Watch out for ice patches this morning 2016-12-18 - Downtown Columbia, KY - Photo by Linda Waggener, columbiamagazine.com. Stepping outside this morning, Sunday, Dec. 18, 2016, was a shock to Smokey Blue Cat and me after yesterday's warm weather. This photo shows the thin layer of ice on the few fall leaves left in the yard after high winds swept it clean and took most of them to our various neighbors. We walked around the house and found many small limbs on the ground. Just before midnight last night the predicted winter front arrived with a power flicker, then a full power outage that lasted for three hours. It was a lesson in how dark darkness can really be in the absence of all the night lights we live with these days. But for lightening, there wasn't a bit of light here. This 24-hour event may well go down in history as one of the biggest demonstrations of why we say, "if you don't like the weather in Kentucky, sick around a few minutes and it will change." Read More... | Comments? | Click here to share, print, or bookmark this photo.

Storm Sat 17 Dec 2016: Roof situation at Harris Law office 2016-12-18 - From Burkesville Street, Columbia, KY - Photo by Ed Waggener, ColumbiaMagazine.com (c). When the winds peeled off the new metal roof over the Harris Law office and dumped it on the square, it also appears to have damaged Mr. Harris' Red Brick Studio building roof, left, and, to a small extent, the roof on the right of the law office building. Crews were on the scene Sunday morning to attend to the situation. - EW Read More... | Comments? | Click here to share, print, or bookmark this photo.

Storm Sat 17 Dec 2016: Tree down on power lines Burkesville Street 2016-12-18 - 400 Block Burkesville Street, Columbia, KY - Photo by Ed Waggener, ColumbiaMagazine.com (c). A large tree is suspended by utility lines on Burkesville Street, Columbia, KY. Much of the debris had been cleared from the roadway at 8:42amCT, Sunday, December 18, 2016. - EW Read More... | Comments? | Click here to share, print, or bookmark this photo.

Storm Sat 17 Dec 2016: Unlit crosses still visible 2016-12-18 - 200 Quadrant Public Square, Columbia, KY - Photo by Ed Waggener, ColumbiaMagazine.com (c). The storm last night peeled off the new roof over the Harris Law Office on the Public Square, with debris initially blocking the Square. For a while, before power was restored, the three crosses atop the Red Brick Studio were scarcely visible. This photo was taken after power was restored, at around 4amCT, Sunday morning. Other damage in the downtown included signs blown off perpendicular, and some Christmas Postcards blown aside. - EW Read More... | Comments? | Click here to share, print, or bookmark this photo.

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