22-05-2025
Impacts of Lowry City tornado still felt days later
ST. CLAIR COUNTY, Mo. — A tornado, suspected of being of an EF-1 caliber, touched down in St. Clair County, Missouri, Monday. Some businesses in Lowry City still don't have power or utilities as they deal with its aftermath.
'I know everything will be good.. everything will be fine. It's weird that it happens to you, when it happens,' Joann Silkwood, a business owner in Lowry City shared Wednesday.
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Silkwood showed FOX4 damage to her business at The Red Rooster Antiques. Her 'front porch' is gone, along with signage. A large tree also lays on the side of the shop. Power there, as of Wednesday, is also out.
The Marketplace, houses several other small businesses, located off of Highway 13 in Lowry City.
'This looks bad, but there are people that have it way worse,' Silkwood shared referring to the tree puncturing her business. 'We will probably have to put a new roof on and everyone (her antique vendors) will have to move out for a little while.'
Her outlook on what's ahead though is still bright.
'I'm blessed. I love everything I do. I love all the people I do it with. I'm doing everything I've ever dreamed of right now so we will be OK,' she added.
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Businesses next to hers though, do have electricity back on.
'The storm, honestly it just looked like a big tsunami outside,' Ashley Silkwood, who owner of Silkwood Blooms Greenhouse and Garden Shop said. 'You couldn't see anything.'
Ashley Silkwood said she and her family hunkered down at home during the storm, but after it passed, went to check on the shop.
'Once we turned the corner and saw our greenhouse roof and knew it was still standing, overall, but came into the parking lot and saw our whole front wall was blown in. Our doors were off the hinges, everything outside was blow into the fence and the field. Plants and pots and racks and tables, everywhere,' she recalled.
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The National Weather Service says this was a challenging survey to conduct because of widespread tree damage. The path of a reported tornado, in St. Clair County, was 4.6 miles.
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