Tornado Demolishes Windsor, CO

A huge tornado ripped through Windsor, Colorado, just before lunch yesterday, destroying much of the town of 19,000.  Miraculously, only one person was killed, a camper at a former missile silo now turned into a campground, just to the southeast of town. 

Windsor is about 50 miles north of where I live, in Broomfield.  I'm an assistant scoutmaster of Boy Scout Troop 767, and we camped at the missile silo campground about 8 months ago.  The troop got to know Peter Ambrose, the caretaker of the campground, and his collie, K.C.  Ambrose survived the twister while holed up in a cinderblock restroom, but the dog ran out into the storm and was so severely injured that he had to be euthanized after the storm.  Ambrose's mobile home was swept away.

Troop 767 is going to try to raise some money to help Peter Ambrose and his wife, Sharon, get back on their feet.   If you would like to help, please let me know at ike@practiq.com, and I'll connect you with the Troop's treasurer.  We might also put together a work team to go up to Windsor to help, once we know more about the best way to help out, so please let me know if you're interested in helping out with that, too.

Comments

[A.W.]

I am not a resident of Windsor, but I live in Wellington which isn't too far down the road. I cannot even imagine how scary that must have been for the residents and my thoughts go out to those individuals. Fortunately Wellington was not hit by the storm, which from what I hear, weakened quite a lot once it crossed I-25. I did see a lot of debris scattered about in fields south of town, but certainly not the enormity that Windsor had. I was scared and spent a good 2-3 hours in a storm cellar with a small radio waiting it out. I have never seen the weather act so strangely. The clouds were really ominious, especially east of town, and it really looked like the scene from a science fiction movie. This is not typical weather for this area of Colorado, and I think it really caught a lot of people offguard. I am truly thankful that the number of casualties was so small,and I hope I never have such an experience again.