This was my home with my parents. It was the first farm property bought by my family and it was destroyed in 1981 with a tornado that hit Lafayette Indiana too. It looks like a mess with all the torn material from the tornado. First it was a brick house then the previous owner tore it down and put a double wide with a room built on. In 1981 after the storm which took the trailer, we cleaned up and built a house. There are still people who think the house is a trailer yet. We lived in a small travel trailer till the house was built. The bank barn, corn crib and milk house is no longer there. A new pole barn and a car port was added. A driveway paved too. Back field is now a classified forest, walnut and oak trees. Land around the front and side of house is decorated in stone of a tractor, dog, smile face, letter d, face of an Indian, letter s, and a red ball. Some of the landscape is rubber nuggets. From 1974 to the present,2023. I have lived here. I know how hard it is to loose your home but you can replace a home. At least no one got hurt. I know my parents would be proud of the farm today.

Janet,
We're sorry to hear that the property was so badly damaged by the tornado in 1981. What kind of farm has the property been over the decades? What is your favorite memory of this property?

The farm has been a grain and pasture for cattle. Somewhere in 2000 more or less the pasture went to trees for erosion and for environment. Fence repair and putting up new was too much and not very profitable. If you remember, in the old days they tore out trees to farm and that is where the dust bowl started out west. We all should think about climate change now. My favorite memory is that when Channel 18 from Lafayette came to the house after the tornado and interviewed my mother who was in the house when it got hit. Nobody in the county acknowledged that it was a tornado and they did. The property made history on television.