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August 10, 2012

‘We’re not in Kansas anymore’ Wind carries couple’s greenhouse into neighbor’s yard

Faith Harper Jacksonville Daily Progress The Jacksonville Daily Progress Fri Aug 10, 2012, 08:56 AM CDT

JACKSONVILLE — MOUNT SELMAN —There is no place like home and after Wednesday's storm, a piece of Linda and Eddie Hasty's home ended up in their neighbor's back yard.

Linda Hasty said the Lord picked up an approximately 6-feet by 8-feet green house with enough gusto that it grazed the top of a chain link fence before landing on the property behind her neighbor's home, about 80 feet away. The landing was smooth enough that the structure landed right side up and only began slumping after about 12 hours in its new location.

“I hated that because it's going to be winter before long and it's where I put all my plants,” she said. “It broke my heart because I have a lot of plants.”

The Hasty family were not the only Cherokee County residents who had troubles during the storm.

Charles Hill, regional customer operations manager for ONCOR, said at the peak of the storm, there was approximately a total of 4,300 to 4,400 residents without power, including the entire city of Bullard and about 705 residents of those residents were in the Jacksonville and Mt. Selman areas. He said most of the outages were due to high winds.

Aaron Stevens, meteorologist with the National Weather Service in Shreveport, said the Jacksonville area received about 1 inch of rainfall.

He said the storms were caused by heat and moisture. He said thunderstorms are caused by a force causing air to move up, and that can be done by a high pressure system, but it can also be done by heat.

“As long as there is enough moisture and it's hot enough, you will have thunderstorms that start popping up all over the place,” Stevens said.

He said the weather service does not measure wind speeds for the city of Jacksonville, but winds between 30 and 40 mph would have enough power to carry the structure away, but it is not considered severe until it hits about 50 mph.

Hasty said she left the door to the greenhouse open to help heat escape, hoping to keep the plastic lining from melting. Stevens said air likely became trapped inside the greenhouse, causing the interior pressure to go up.

“Basically the air builds up inside and then it becomes like a kite and it moves,” he said. “It's pretty cool how it works.”

Wednesday carried a 30 percent chance of rainfall. Stevens said the Jacksonville area has the same 20 percent chance through tonight and again from Monday to Thursday of next week. Temperatures are expected to have a high in the upper 90s and lows in the lower 70s through next week.

And through the weekend, Hasty said her husband will begin taking the old structure down and rebuilding it on their side of the fence.

“I told my husband I want it bigger this time,” she said. “I have more plants than last year.

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