Tornado damages east De Soto homes September 13, 2008
A tornado tracked through De Soto Friday evening, first causing damage at Zimmerman's Kill Creek Farm and then damaging homes on Brome Road. But the worst damage was in the Rik Mar, Corliss Road area near 84th Street, where numerous trees were downed and several home damaged.
Carol Osborne and her daughter Kelly Weixeldorfer, Leewood, look at one of two toppled trees that fell on Osborne's home on 84th Street between Rik Mar and Corliss Road in De Soto. Osborne, who was at work when the twister struck, said said there was roof and siding damage to the house and a shed in the backyard was badly damaged.
The sheet metal roof of their neigbor's parking wrapped around a tree in the yard of Maureen and Rod Mills at the corner of 84th Street and Corliss Road.
The 84th Street home of Gary Pruitt apparently had more harm from Friday evening's tornado that any other home in De Soto. De Soto building inspector Steve Chick said in addition to damage to his garage and roof, differential pressure from the storm broke a some of the house's roof trusses. Pruitt got to his basement just as the storm hit.
Friday evening's tornado tousled the boats Gary Pruitt stored behind his home on 84th Street while bringing down a tree among them. A free standing roof extending from the garage in the background and the poles supporting it damaged an outbuilding of his neighbors Rod and Maureen Mills.
