Families recover.
-,,.from freak tornado

-El WINDSOR LOCKS, Conn. (AP) -
!'9tunned families salvaged what they
4ould yesterday from homes left in
(hambles by af freak tornado that killed
wo persons, injured hundreds and
:aused an estimated $179 million in
44mage.
-x President Carter declared the
 itricken towns a disaster area, making
-4sidents and businesses eligible for
ederal aid.
kIYOU JUST pick up what you can
end that's it. After 20 years you start
R ver," Louis Cermola said as he went
,hrough the remains of his home on
* ruonock Avenue in Windsor. "There
kin't nothing there now. The roof's
;one. It's all gone," the truck driver
'You just pick up what you can
and that's it. After 20 years
you start over ... there ain't
nothing there now. The roofs
gone. It's all gone. Nobody was
iijured thank God.'
- Windsor Locks resident
Louis Cermola
,said. "Nobody was injured, thank
.:God"
Gov. Ella Grasso continued for a
,,second night the 8 p.m. to 5 a.m. curfew
-%in Windsor and Winsor Locks, and 500
o ational Guard troops were activated
Aoe prevent looting and direct traffic.
"I've never seen anything as bad,"
' Grasso said after a helicopter tour of
,-Windsor and her hometown of Windsor
Locks. "To look through that swirl of
. fog -and see some houses like mat-
-,-hsticks swept from their foundations
. you think that in those houses were
lamilies and their lives, I'm sure, are
,, shattered;" she said.
THE FUNNEL cloud caught residen-
J by surprise Wednesday afternoon.
-,"Weather service radar did not even
pick up the twister, which spun out of a
wave of thunderstorms that lashed nor-
th-central Connecticut with winds up to
-4 mph.

A Manchester man, William
Kowalsky, 24, was killed during the tor-
nado when flying lumber hit his pickup
truck, authorities said. The body of
Carole Dombkoski, 42, was found
yesterday amid rubble near the
wreckage of her Setter Street home in
Windsor, state police said.
State Health Commissioner Douglas,
Lloyd said 143 people were hospitalized
and at least 18 others were treated for
injuries.
GRASSO SAID damage in Windsor
Locks was estimated at $1 million for 28
commercial and industrial businesses,
$5 million for National Guard aircraft
and $15 million for private aircraft.
In Windsor,, there was about $12
million in damage to 10 businesses and
115 homes, 65 of which were destroyed,
she said. In Suffield 25 to 30 homes and
25 tobacco sheds suffered about $2
million in damage.
Grasso, who applied for federal
disaster aid for the area, received of-
fers of assistance from the governors of
Massachusetts and Rhode Island.
BRADLEY International Airport
reopened yesterday morning after
being closed since the tornado hit shor-
tly before 3 p.m. Wednesday. Workers
cleaned bits of wreckage from the run-
ways. The main terminal building was
not damaged.
But James Fine's Acme Auto Supply,
its roof peeled back and windows pop-
ped out, did not reopen. He (Fine) said
he does not know when it will.
"It's incredible. It looks like a bomb
hit the place," Fine said.
"It's incredible, there were people in
that building.'It's amazing nobody got
hurt." Fine thought he could salvage
some of the auto parts from the store.
Similar efforts were being made at
homes in Windsor. A middle-aged man
whose house was leveled got canned
goods and two hunting rifles out of his
flooded basement, and a woman at
another housewas collecting her
husband's ties.
"No, no," repeated one man as he
shook his head. Little was left of his
house - the family room and two-car
garage were blown off the foundations
as cleanly as if they had been swept.

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ELLEN MILLER sits and cries with her son Michael amid the wreckage of
their Windsor Locks, Conn. home after it was destroyed by a tornado.


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