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Shepherds Tornado's
Date: 07-16-2007
By: Dave C
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I was listening to one of Shep's WOR broadcasts where he talks about being in a Tornado in Comstock Michigan while in a rowboat with his brother Randy lying in the bottom of the boat when a Tornado hits the town.
I grew up near Comstock and thought this was interesting so I looked it up and he would have been there August 8th 1939 when the Tornado hit.
Me mentions the Red Cross showing up almost instantly and that is also mentioned in the article I read.
I just thought it was interesting as some of his stories are semi fictional but given the show was from the 1960's and the Tornado was in 1939 when he would have been 18 years old and given the amount of detailed information he had on that particular incident he must have actually been there.
I wonder what he was doing in Comstock Michigan or who he knew there.
Comstock even when I was a kid in the 60's was such a small town you just didn't go there unless You knew someone or had a specific reason to go there as there just wasn't much there.
Here is a link to an article about the tornado.
http://server.remc12.k12.mi.us/ourtown/comstock/geography/geog4.htm
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