White Tornado (Missing) LbNA #21891 (ARCHIVED)
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Add Location| Owner: | Adoptable |
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| Plant date: | May 2, 2006 |
| Location: | |
| City: | London |
| County: | Madison |
| State: | Ohio |
| Boxes: | 1 |
| Planted by: | Pioneer Spirit  |
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| Found by: | Sirius Star Gazer |
| Last found: | Sep 4, 2006 |
| Status: | FFFF |
| Last edited: | May 2, 2006 |
White Tornado
Difficulty: Easy
Not handicap friendly.
Missing and will not be replaced at this location (1/07)
Reliving the past series, June 1986.
To find Madison Lake State Park, travel down Spring Valley road from either route 42 or 665. Another route would be from the south off of US 56.
So here goes the tail of this stamp:
It was June 1986, I heard a radio report that a tornado had been sighted in Madison County. Being curious, I decided to drive out to the end of State Of Ohio out of the Oak forest so I could maybe see an actual tornado miles off across the flat farm land.
Since I didn’t see one from the stop sign, I decided to go on down Spring Valley toward 665 so I could maybe see a tornado some where FAR off.
Before I reached 665, I noticed the car beginning to shake from strong wind gusts. So I see this white tornado forming and dissipating in the field close to my car as the winds moved across Spring Valley. So I follow this thing as it finally retains it’s shape and get bigger and turns dark with the dirt it carried. This tornado traveled all the way over to Bolton Field before dissipating, there were some ground folks wrestling with a Fuji Blimp that was moored at this airport. So, I not only found the tornado, I drove through it just as it was forming.
Find State Of Ohio Road, it runs down to a picnic shelter and is one of three roads in close succession. As the street enters the State property, you will want to turn right into a little parking area at the top of the hill. This parking area was once a road the continued around the lake edge back to Spring Valley road but was long gone before I moved to the area in 1982. After parking, check out the tall pines that were planted sometime around the time that the dredging was done circa 1990. A car was parked here one time and some parents left a baby and a couple kids alone in the car, the kids messed with the gear shift and sent the vehicle over the embankment into the lake. No one was hurt at the time but the trees now stand in the way.
The sludge dam you will visit has only been here since about 1990 or so. The amazing part is how cottonwoods can grow so fast. The spot where this brushy mess stands was once a mowed picnic spot where folks played Frisbee and walked dogs. It’s hard to imagine seeing kids on bicycles in an area now full of sediment pumped from the lake behind this dam. One tip off is seeing the boat dock post where I would pull my canoe onto the flat, grassy yard. I am reminded that they stopped mowing this about a year before the sludge pond was made, they planted little pines in here about a year before they came in and bulldozed them all out again.
Walk down the grassy area over the remains of concrete road slabs and over the metal culvert to where the lake and the sludge dam meet. Here you will see about 4 fair sized cotton wood trees that have grown up in the 15-16 year period since the dredging was done. You will walk up this 4-5 foot embankment to a twin trunked cottonwood. From this cottonwood, walk 7 paces around the narrow flat part of this dam to a small cottonwood with a damaged base. This tree should align with a concrete-set metal dock post at the waters edge. White Tornado is at the base of this tree under sticks and rocks.
Please re-hide as found or better, being aware that there might be fishermen nearby and this spot is not on any trail.
Difficulty: Easy
Not handicap friendly.
Missing and will not be replaced at this location (1/07)
Reliving the past series, June 1986.
To find Madison Lake State Park, travel down Spring Valley road from either route 42 or 665. Another route would be from the south off of US 56.
So here goes the tail of this stamp:
It was June 1986, I heard a radio report that a tornado had been sighted in Madison County. Being curious, I decided to drive out to the end of State Of Ohio out of the Oak forest so I could maybe see an actual tornado miles off across the flat farm land.
Since I didn’t see one from the stop sign, I decided to go on down Spring Valley toward 665 so I could maybe see a tornado some where FAR off.
Before I reached 665, I noticed the car beginning to shake from strong wind gusts. So I see this white tornado forming and dissipating in the field close to my car as the winds moved across Spring Valley. So I follow this thing as it finally retains it’s shape and get bigger and turns dark with the dirt it carried. This tornado traveled all the way over to Bolton Field before dissipating, there were some ground folks wrestling with a Fuji Blimp that was moored at this airport. So, I not only found the tornado, I drove through it just as it was forming.
Find State Of Ohio Road, it runs down to a picnic shelter and is one of three roads in close succession. As the street enters the State property, you will want to turn right into a little parking area at the top of the hill. This parking area was once a road the continued around the lake edge back to Spring Valley road but was long gone before I moved to the area in 1982. After parking, check out the tall pines that were planted sometime around the time that the dredging was done circa 1990. A car was parked here one time and some parents left a baby and a couple kids alone in the car, the kids messed with the gear shift and sent the vehicle over the embankment into the lake. No one was hurt at the time but the trees now stand in the way.
The sludge dam you will visit has only been here since about 1990 or so. The amazing part is how cottonwoods can grow so fast. The spot where this brushy mess stands was once a mowed picnic spot where folks played Frisbee and walked dogs. It’s hard to imagine seeing kids on bicycles in an area now full of sediment pumped from the lake behind this dam. One tip off is seeing the boat dock post where I would pull my canoe onto the flat, grassy yard. I am reminded that they stopped mowing this about a year before the sludge pond was made, they planted little pines in here about a year before they came in and bulldozed them all out again.
Walk down the grassy area over the remains of concrete road slabs and over the metal culvert to where the lake and the sludge dam meet. Here you will see about 4 fair sized cotton wood trees that have grown up in the 15-16 year period since the dredging was done. You will walk up this 4-5 foot embankment to a twin trunked cottonwood. From this cottonwood, walk 7 paces around the narrow flat part of this dam to a small cottonwood with a damaged base. This tree should align with a concrete-set metal dock post at the waters edge. White Tornado is at the base of this tree under sticks and rocks.
Please re-hide as found or better, being aware that there might be fishermen nearby and this spot is not on any trail.