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Few showers High: 67 | Low: 53 | Details, page 2 DAILY GLOBE yourdailyglobe.com Thursday, July 14, 2016 75 cents Board invites Snyder to tour storm damage By RALPH ANSAMI age, including the devastated Little The Wisconsin National Guard and all reopened to traffic. verts, many of which must be repaired [email protected] Girl’s Point area and the damage in state agencies were authorized to help Pionk said residents from the Point to or replaced. The public is strongly BESSEMER — The Gogebic County Wakefield. Iron County and the other affected the Wisconsin line are basically strand- advised to stay away to let the work get Board of Commissioners would like Gov. “It’s all the same storm,” Gogebic northern counties, where clean-up and ed. Five people chose to be transported done, he said. Rick Snyder to follow Wisconsin Gov. County Road Commission Engineer repair efforts will continue for months. out in a boat, according to undersheriff Much of Lake Road was washed out Scott Walker’s lead and view damage Darren Pionk told the county board, For Gogebic County, there has been Ross Solberg. by the storm. caused by Monday’s violent thunder- referring to the damage in neighboring no such emergency declaration, Pionk said work is being done on There is electricity, but no phone ser- storm and tornado. Iron County, Wis. although damages from the storm are Lower Powers Road and Brace Road as vice at the Point, where most of the res- County board members unanimously Walker declared a state of emergency extensive. alternative routes, with many private agreed Wednesday to send a letter to in eight northern Wisconsin counties The county board heard a report from contractors involved. In an eight-mile Snyder, inviting him to tour the dam- and toured Saxon Harbor on Tuesday. Pionk on efforts to get the Point area stretch of Powers Road, there are 40 cul- GOGEBIC — page 5 TREES SNAPPED, BARN DAMAGED Iron County Storm updates road damages Saari closures farm in Oma By RICHARD JENKINS [email protected] HURLEY — Iron County offi- By RICHARD JENKINS cials held a brief press confer- [email protected] ence Wednesday to provide an OMA, Wis — While most of update on road closures in the the attention following Monday county and the aftermath of night’s storm was on the north- Monday’s storm. ern part of Iron County, Jim According to county officials: Saari’s farm in Oma also sus- — While there are no U.S. 2 tained considerable damage. closures in Iron County, the clo- The Iron County Sheriff’s sures in Ashland County contin- Department received a call ue to prevent thru traffic. The shortly before midnight Monday official route for travel west on reporting a power line down U.S. 2 is from U.S. 2 to south- across U.S. 51 at Saari’s proper- bound U.S. 51, westbound Wis- ty on Lyons Road. consin 77, southbound Wiscon- Saari said he was in bed, hav- sin 13, westbound Wisconsin 77, ing just finished watching televi- southbound Wisconsin 63 and sion for the night, when he northbound Wisconsin 53. heard a loud noise and a bang. Both Wisconsin 13 and Wis- He said he told his wife he consin 63 have washouts that thought a tree had fallen onto necessitate the longer route. the house and could see the sil- Officials estimated travel time houette of branches through one on the route between Hurley and of the windows. Ashland to be approximately “Lo and behold, it wasn’t just three to four hours. that tree,” Saari said. — Harbor Road, Curry Road He called his son, who lives Richard Jenkins/Daily Globe and County B are open to local nearby, and it was discovered SNAPPED TREES and littered debris are scattered around Jim Saari’s property at Lyons Road and U.S. 51 in Oma Wednesday. The damage is the traffic only. The county highway several trees had actually fallen remnants of a possible tornado that Saari believes occured during Monday night’s storm. department continues to work to on the property; smashing a car make County B a two-lane road and damaging a recreational barn. horse being rounded up Tuesday out the sporadic damage and The National Weather Ser- again. Access to the town of Gur- vehicle, the house in several Luckily, Saari said no one morning. saying parts of the barn were vice in Duluth was unable to ney has been restored through places and destroying the upper was hurt and the farm animals Saari thinks the damage was found as far as a mile from the confirm a tornado occurred with- Curry Road. floor of the property’s 1920s-era were all recovered, with the last caused by a tornado, pointing property. out additional information. — While Wisconsin 122 is open south of U.S. 2, it remains closed north of the highway. FESTIVAL IRONWOOD — Wisconsin 169 is closed in Iron County. Boats recovered — County A remains closed and is expected to be closed for from Lake Superior IRON — page 5 By RALPH ANSAMI [email protected] Rainfall totals from storm SAXON, Wis. — The day after vary across region a deadly storm ripped apart 5 Little Girl’s Point Saxon Harbor, efforts began Here are 24-hour Wisconsin, Tuesday to recover boats that Michigan and Minnesota rainfall residents evacuated washed into Lake Superior. totals from Monday night’s mega storm, as relayed by the National By TOM STANKARD At least 29 boats ended up in Weather Service offices in Duluth [email protected] the lake. Some apparently sunk and Marquette. Gogebic County Emergency and are unaccounted for after —9.65 inches: Saxon. Management Agency Manager from 9 to 12 inches of rain fell in —8.9 inches: Brainerd. James Loeper said five residents a four-hour period, ending —8.67 inches: Highbridge. were evacuated by boat Tuesday around midnight on Monday. —8.21 inches: Seeley. from their homes near Little When a second basin was —7.63 inches: Namekagon. Girl’s Point, while others added to the harbor in a 2006 —7.55 inches: Drummond. remained there by choice. expansion project, the renovated —7.5 inches: Wrenshall, Cable. Lake Road remains closed boat slip area was designed so —7.27 inches: Danbury. —6.49 inches: Minong. from Upper Powers Road to the flooding water on Oronto Creek —6.24 inches: Clam Lake. Wisconsin border due to the would flow over an access road —5.75 inches: Hayward. Monday evening’s storm. directly into the harbor, mini- —5.25 inches: Superior. Loeper said the affected area mizing damage. —5.2 inches: Ashland airport. contains 80 to 100 residents. He On many occasions of —4.95 inches: Moose Lake. said there are no injuries report- extremely high water, the creek —3.25 inches: Oulu. ed at this time. flooded over the access road into —2.58 inches: Bayfield. The Gogebic County Road the harbor, as was planned. —2.59 inches: Ironwood. Commission is continuing to But on Monday night, the —1.69 inches: Bergland dam. work on Lake Road, Powers creek that runs next to the coun- —1.61 inches: Duluth airport. —.64 inch: Hibbing. Road and Brace Road so resi- ty park campgrounds expanded —.12 inch: Marquette. dents at the Point can get out. so rapidly that it changed course In Wakefield, there are still and flowed directly through the end of the newer basin at the some downed trees due to high camping area, according to Iron harbor. There was such force in winds, but Bill Morand, Xcel County Forest Administrator the swollen stream that the cur- Energy regional communication Eric Peterson. rent tore apart wooden docks director, said they are “working Tom Stankard/Daily Globe When the creek flooded over BRETT RICHTER, left, Tony Pollack and Neil Everson, all of the Ironwood-Hurley Rotary Club, tend to the the County A blacktop, it then grill while making hotdogs during Festival Ironwood at Depot Park in Ironwood Wednesday evening. discharged directly into the west BOATS — page 5 POINT — page 5 C O N T A C T U S WEATHER INSIDE INDEX TODAY BIG DIG Business . .13 Daily Globe Inc. Wednesday Today’s records High 84 High 95 (1969) Classifieds . .12-14 Vol. 97, Ed. 165 118 E. McLeod Ave. Few showers Work on U.S. 2 at Low 69 Low 38 (1960) Comics . .11 P.O. 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