Gone in 20 Seconds

DRESDEN, Ohio – Tuesday evening’s storms generated an EF-1 twister that whirled up a nightmare as it blew apart a Coshocton County farmhouse. 

Property Owner and Mother of Five, Rose Siegrist shared how the family scrambled to get hunkered down and weather the experience. 

“My Daughter, she’s in the back bedroom where the worst damage was,” Siegrist said. “She just crossed her threshold when the wall went, so. And then I went to the front bedroom and got William and Sebastian, the baby out. Because they stay in the same room. I was getting them… I was literally picking him up out of the crib as I was running out. Everything just happened so quick. I mean by the time we were upstairs and we heard nothing til the time we got downstairs, it was probably not even 20 seconds.”

None of the family members were injured but the roof and east wall were torn from the structure and remnants of the landscape and house were strewn across the driveway blocking their exit.

“We had the Muskingum and the Coshocton County weather people and the Pittsburgh national weather people come yesterday as well. And they determined it was an… 105-mile-an-hour winds, F-1. And it basically touched down right where our house was,” Siegrist said.

The farm was insured and the clean-up and rebuilding process is already underway. The family is staying with relatives and are being assisted by their friends and church family.

This was the sixth confirmed tornado in Coshocton County since 1950 and the first since 1985.