In Windsor, Colorado, one funeral director recounts the damage from last May’s EF3 tornado that destroyed several of his hearses and other things associated with his business.
Mark Long was in the Marks Funeral Home and Cremation Service on the day of the devastating tornado. “I had no clue it was a tornado,” he told a reporter. “I was listening to XM Radio and my only clue was the hail.”
But Todd Vess, a local firefighter and Long’s partner, warned Mark of the tornado which was reported in his area. “Once I heard that the tornado had hit the area where the funeral home was, I called Mark to tell him to take cover. I remember him saying before his phone cut out that ‘it’s here.’”
The EF3 tornado was so powerful that it knocked the 19-ton cremation oven four inches off of its proper place. It also destroyed two hearses that mark had parked in his parking lot. Neither one of them were Cadillac hearses, but that does not make the destruction any easier to endure.
Today, Long and his partner have rebuilt the funeral home. “We’re the only funeral home in Windsory. We wanted to stay here,” Vess explained. He feels lucky that business was slow at the time of the tornado so no bodies were destroyed as a result of the storm.
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