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Happy Easter to those who celebrate.
Some of you may know that the St. Louis airport, Lambert Field, was damaged by a tornado on Friday. The concourse that was damaged was the one through which I usually flew out of town back in the days when I was flying a lot, particularly when I was in grad school at Columbus. It was strange to watch the CBS news with Russ Mitchell as the anchor talking about it. Russ worked for the local CBS station in the St. Louis back in the day and no doubt he flew out of that concourse many times more per year than I did. He was the reporter that showed up for several of the public meetings for the airport and highway construction during the upheavals in my general neighborhood that eventually led to me selling the land my parents had bought when I was very small and to my retiring.
The house I lived in has been gone for years, but I was still curious about where the tornado had hit. Mostly it was on the southern side of the airport, Maryland Heights, southern Bridgeton and across the airport into Berkley, places that had existed before I was born, but like everything else in the area grown and changed a lot in my life time. The worst of the damage apparently missed the huge mall in the area, Northwest Plaza. It would have been a clean miss as far as where I lived, a few miles farther north and west of the mall. But still its shocking when you know these places.
ETA: Just looking around on the net I discovered Northwest Plaza closed down last year. Heck they couldn't have missed my business that much. ;o) Actually I'm sure airport expansion made the trip to Northwest Plaza from my area longer and tore out hundreds of houses of families who would have shopped there. At the same time a new big shopping center was built within walking distance of my old property shortly after I left. Times do change
Some of you may know that the St. Louis airport, Lambert Field, was damaged by a tornado on Friday. The concourse that was damaged was the one through which I usually flew out of town back in the days when I was flying a lot, particularly when I was in grad school at Columbus. It was strange to watch the CBS news with Russ Mitchell as the anchor talking about it. Russ worked for the local CBS station in the St. Louis back in the day and no doubt he flew out of that concourse many times more per year than I did. He was the reporter that showed up for several of the public meetings for the airport and highway construction during the upheavals in my general neighborhood that eventually led to me selling the land my parents had bought when I was very small and to my retiring.
The house I lived in has been gone for years, but I was still curious about where the tornado had hit. Mostly it was on the southern side of the airport, Maryland Heights, southern Bridgeton and across the airport into Berkley, places that had existed before I was born, but like everything else in the area grown and changed a lot in my life time. The worst of the damage apparently missed the huge mall in the area, Northwest Plaza. It would have been a clean miss as far as where I lived, a few miles farther north and west of the mall. But still its shocking when you know these places.
ETA: Just looking around on the net I discovered Northwest Plaza closed down last year. Heck they couldn't have missed my business that much. ;o) Actually I'm sure airport expansion made the trip to Northwest Plaza from my area longer and tore out hundreds of houses of families who would have shopped there. At the same time a new big shopping center was built within walking distance of my old property shortly after I left. Times do change