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Powerful Storm Batters Flatonia

  • Flatonia’s Mike Steinhauser points to how the roof of his law office downtown was peeled off by powerful winds Thursday night. Photo by Jeff Wick
    Flatonia’s Mike Steinhauser points to how the roof of his law office downtown was peeled off by powerful winds Thursday night. Photo by Jeff Wick
  • R.J. Steinhauser was helping his brother Mike clean out his rain-soaked law office after the roof blew off Thursday. Here he throws piles of soaked drywall and other debris on the sidewalk outside the office. Photo by Jeff Wick
    R.J. Steinhauser was helping his brother Mike clean out his rain-soaked law office after the roof blew off Thursday. Here he throws piles of soaked drywall and other debris on the sidewalk outside the office. Photo by Jeff Wick
Mike Steinhauser is an optimist. His law office in down-town Flatonia sustained lots of water damage Thursday after a powerful storm peeled off part of the roof above the historic 150-year-old building. “At least we got rain,” Steinhauser said. A century-old oak fell in his back yard during the storm. “But it missed the house,” he said. Steinhauser was quick to find the silver linings, but…

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