By Dan Linehan
Free Press Staff Writer
March 28, 2008 10:38 am
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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.
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Photos
Bill Lambert displays an aerial photo of his rural St. Peter farm after the storm. At upper left is the house before the storm.
John Cross