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Published March 28, 2008 12:46 am - Farmers afflicted by the 1998 tornado had to plant and rebuild at the same time A harvest of resilience after the storm Farmers planted and rebuilt By Dan Linehan Free Press Staff Writer If a tornado had to come, there could have been no better time from Bill Lambert’s perspective.
The ground was still frozen, the tractor gathering dust behind locked doors at Lambert’s farm, about two miles west of St. Peter. It was an unusually nice March day, and Lambert was thinking about taking his machines out of the shed but hesitated, not wanting a coat of snow over his tractor. The whole Lambert family — wife, Peg, and three children — was home when Bill stepped outside and saw it. His double-wide house was tossed, in pieces, into a nearby field. Two small silos would likely have joined it, had they not weighted down with corn and soybeans. Farmers and city dwellers dealt with the same storm, and tell similar stories about March 29, 1998. But farmers had to raise crops as they picked up the pieces. For complete story, see the Friday, March 28, print edition of The Free Press or sign onto our e-edition. Click here to access Free Press e-edition 
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