How's your weather treating you?

[Nature Man]

Yeah, Monmouth is an " old" town with lots of brick buildings in the downtown, and mature trees throughout. Coupled with power distribution exclusively above ground and you have a mess. It's the county seat, but only 8500 population, so it's a small town. From pictures, it was mostly on southern side of town, so hoping they can quickly get main distribution lines running which would get us power back. No major damage outside of town.

In the midst of the cleanup, I guess there might be opportunities for some wood from downed trees.

 

[trc65]

In the midst of the cleanup, I guess there might be opportunities for some wood from downed trees.

Yeah, but I won't bother looking. I've got all the trees I need right here in my own property. Most of the downed trees will probably end up as firewood sold by the contractors doing the work.

 

[2feathers Creative Making]

I am leary of storm downed trees if broken off. They tend to have cracks that show up after you start the drying process.

 

[Wildthings]

What amazes me is the sheer luck those train cars got derailed right at the section of track where those cranes were stationed

 

[trc65]

When it comes to derailed trains, and more importantly, stopping Amtrak, BNSF spares no expense. Massive fines for even small delays to Amtrak, and that track is a busy one out of the Galesburg yard. Probably 10 trains or more a day travelling that track in each direction. Couldn't guess how many hundreds (thousands?) of tons of cargo is going to be delayed.

The company with the cranes and track repair is on call 24/7/365 to immediately respond to any disturbance to rail traffic. They probably had trucks with equipment on the way within an hour of the derailment. They will be working 24 hours a day until it's open again.