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Tornado Damage - Thursday
May 29, 2008
The original Exposition Building was built in 1990 and the Ag
Pavilion was added ten years later.
Sadly, the original Exposition Building was destroyed in the
tornado that went through Kearney in the summer of 2008. After
the destruction, the Fair board decided that while construction
was already to be done, the Ag Pavilion that was previously only
enclosed by chain link fence on two sides would be completely
enclosed. We are now working on floor plans for the New
Exposition Building and we are scheduled to start construction
after the 2009 Fair and have the building completed by the end
of 2010.
Fair's Expo Center to rise
again
By LORI POTTER,
Hub Staff Writer
KEARNEY — The Buffalo
County Expo Center sits bent and broken on the fairgrounds,
but Agricultural Society (fair) Board members spent Tuesday
night pulling some preliminary rebuilding plans from the
rubble.
...read the complete story at the Kearney HUB.
Fairgrounds Staff sees it
unfold, and sees it collapse too
By LORI POTTER, Hub
Staff Writer
KEARNEY — The west end of
the Buffalo County Expo Center looks as if a giant foot stomped
on it. Some walls from the clear-span steel building fell in
large sections. Some are buckled as if they were hit by a punch
and others collapsed in waves.
...read the complete story at the Kearney HUB.
View video footage of the
destruction left by the tornado in Kearney at the Kearney HUB
website. (http://hubvideo.kearneyhub.com/?p=182).
Hub Video by Betsy Friedrich
Click here for the May 2008 tornadoes site with videos, photos
and articles. |