Likely violent #tornado (EF3+) destroyed multiple homes, twisted high tension power lines, and left significant ground scaring north of Kouts, Indiana.
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Brother, I’d shit myself if I did this on IRACING. Imagine winning like this in the greatest race on the planet. I think the electricity in my blood would send me to another dimension
I’m a bit shell shocked at the moment..
Kyle was incredible to me and our progrum. A phenomenal hang, husband, father, and wheelman.
My thoughts and prayers are with his family and friends..
We love you @KyleBusch.. You done good. Rest easy, man.
I stopped in Highland Park in Kokomo today and ran into one of the strangest pairings in Indiana.
A 21-ton sycamore stump.
And the preserved remains of what was once called the largest steer in the world.
Both sitting quietly in the same park.
The stump hits you first. It looks almost prehistoric… hollow, twisted, big enough that people once stood inside the trunk like a small wooden room.
This wasn’t a display originally. It was a real American sycamore that grew along Wildcat Creek long before Kokomo was much of a town.
When locals measured the stump, the numbers sounded unbelievable:
• about 57 feet around
• roughly 18 feet across
Some early accounts claimed the tree may have started growing hundreds of years before the town existed.
When the giant finally fell in the early 1900s, Kokomo didn’t cut it up.
They decided to move it.
In 1916, crowds lined the roads as a 35-horsepower Rumley tractor slowly dragged the hollow trunk several miles into town.
The stump weighed around 21 tons.
People treated it like a curiosity from the moment it arrived. For years visitors climbed inside the trunk. At one point someone even installed a telephone booth inside the tree.
Then right next to the stump you run into the second giant.
A steer named Old Ben.
Born in 1902 in Howard County, Old Ben grew far beyond the size of normal cattle.
By adulthood he weighed roughly 4,720 pounds. Nearly three times the weight of an ordinary steer. Farmers and fairgoers came from across the Midwest just to see him.
When Old Ben died in 1910, the town preserved him too.
Today his skeleton and mounted hide sit only a short walk from the giant sycamore stump.
A tree that started growing centuries ago. And a steer so massive people refused to forget him.
This was cool for me.
Two enormous curiosities sitting quietly in the same Indiana park saved simply because the town knew they’d probably never see anything like them again.
What happened today with the Biffle family and the other passengers on that airplane is a complete tragedy. My heart goes out to everyone that is affected by this.
We all have questions about what happened, but until the investigation is done there’ll only be speculation as to the cause of the fatal crash.
This video has been created by a reliable aviation source by the name of Hoover and has no speculation as to the cause(s) in it.
However, Hoover presents the facts/data as known at the time and shows you what the plane did on its short flight. It is an interesting video and answered a bunch of my questions but also created more.
Don’t ask me to speculate as to what happened to cause the emergency landing, I simply will not answer - I am neither qualified enough to offer a suggestion nor have enough information to even formulate an idea as to what happened to create the situation the pilot was in.
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