By John Garlock
Thursday, May 21, 2009 at 6:44 p.m.
Read more: Local, Tornado, Knox County, Missouri, Shed, Edina, Damage, Trees, Utility Poles, Highway 15
NEAR EDINA, MO. -- Last week's tornadoes did the bulk of damage in Adair County, killing two people just outside Kirksville.
But the twisters also made their way into Knox County, apparently touching down right on top of a large red machine shed north of Edina.
It looked like the roof was peeled back like the lid on a sardine can.
The building is at the late Charles Gardner residence along Highway 15 about a mile-and-a-half north of Edina.
The Gardners' grandson, Colby Gibbs, says the building was insured.
Gibbs was away at college in Kansas when he got word about the tornado damage.
"My mom called me and told me that the neighbors had called and said that the shed had been torn to pieces, and they didn't know what kind of condition the house was in, and so my mom raced up here the next day and then she told me that half the shed was gone," said Gibbs.
Some of the contents are missing, but Gibbs told KTVO a lot of the stuff is still intact.
"The metal was scattered for about two miles in various fields. We had some help getting that picked up, but you could just drive around and anywhere that you saw some red, you knew it came from here," said Gibbs.
Fortunately the house just a few yards away from the shed just had some shingles blown off.
Gibbs said the tornado took down several power poles and electrical lines for about a mile along Highway 15 north of Edina.
The storm also damaged some other out buildings and took out a number of trees north and northeast of Edina. Some trees on the north edge of the Edina Golf Course were also twisted off by the tornado.
A Sullivan County woman was also killed by last week’s tornadoes when one of them leveled her home northeast of Milan.