{"id":8426,"date":"2025-06-21T17:25:48","date_gmt":"2025-06-21T22:25:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/?p=8426"},"modified":"2025-06-21T17:28:31","modified_gmt":"2025-06-21T22:28:31","slug":"local-landmark-damaged-by-the-storm-of-june-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/?p=8426","title":{"rendered":"Local landmark damaged by the Storm of June 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"
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If you’re driving by the AASF today, you may have noticed out of the corner of your eye that something seems a little off with the Huey on display at the entrance. You’d be right.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

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Sadly, it appears that last night’s storm – and I was the first one to use the term derecho<\/em> when I recognized it early on – has done some severe damage. Notice that the tail boom is barely dangling, having been torn nearly completely off.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Only a cable or two hold this in place…sadly, I don’t think that’s the kind of thing which can be repaired in the field, or which would be deemed fiscally possible. You know what that means.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Every time I get a glimpse under the skin of an aircraft, I marvel at how little is there. They’ve got to be lightweight, after all. Sadly, that means sometimes they’re unable to withstand exceptional force.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The force of the incredible winds last night probably tore this wide open like a Mountain Dew can. Like the one on my desk right now, as a matter of fact.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Here’s the cable holding it in place and what’s left of the rotor shaft. Yikes. that must have been some wind…although we all experienced it, and it was NASTY.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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This truly is a sad day. I know there are North Dakotans who have lost much more – including their lives – due to last night’s storms, and I don’t want to minimize that. We’ll be talking about June 20th, 2025 for decades. At the same time, I grieve for one more part of my community which seems to be changing lately. I have a fondness for this facility, as I have ties to it I won’t get into here, and I love seeing the Huey on the pedestal when I drive by, albeit infrequently. It’s one of those local landmarks which I love to know is there, so to see it damaged by last night’s storm is saddening.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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