On June 29th and 30th, heavy rain and thunderstorms impacted a large part of the area, especially Paulding County, with flash-flooding. Later Friday afternoon, numerous heavy thunderstorms trained across a large portion of Paulding County, especially the central and southern part of the county. This prompted the National Weather Service to issue a flash flood…
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Surprise Severe Weather in Paulding County
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By: Josh Steiner On May 18th, 2017, a few scattered thunderstorms impacted Paulding County, bringing sporadic straight-line wind damage to parts of the county. The two main areas impacted were near Haviland and Cecil. In Haviland, some power poles and tree limbs were snapped from the first storm. The second storm caused more significant damage…
Dangerous Winds Cause Damaging Fire
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On Tuesday, January 10, the wind was incredible with strong gusts. Well this was not without ill effect around the area. At Sauder Feeds in Grabill it was noticed on the south end of the manufacturing campus the building housing the trucks was sparking where the power lines coming in to the facility with the…
Woodlan Students and Community Unite
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Twenty eight Woodlan students, community, and farm family members recently united at the Schlatter Farms to help clean-up a soybean field that was in the path of the recent tornado that went through South of Harlan, Indiana. Tornado alley wreaked havoc upon everything in its path leaving debris strewn all over. Harvest is fast approaching…
Antwerp’s Oasis Will Reopen Soon – After Fire
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Late Last evening, August 5th, a fire started in the backside of the building in the apartments above the Oasis Bar and Grill in Antwerp. Fire Departments from Hicksville and Payne were called in to assist at the scene. Doug Bragg, owner of the Oasis, said “The Fire Departments did a great job of targeting…
2nd Anniversary Brings 2nd Storm – Memories
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It was June 29, 2012. We at the West Bend News was nearing 3 pm and looking forward to the weekend. I had heard that a storm might be passing through the county, but the watch wasn’t really that bad. The derecho struck with such fierce winds that you thought you were in a tornado.…
