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At around 4 PM, Thursday afternoon, during a thunderstorm in Monticello, a bolt of lightning hit UAM‘s famous music building tower, (more…)

This morning‘s thunderstorm may have moved out of the area, to some extent, but it left trees down all across Drew County, blocking roads.  Drew County sheriffs deputies are responding to reports of trees down, like this one is totally Blocking Pumpkin Center, Road, southwest of Monticello.  State, county, and city workers are responding to all reports, doing what they can to clear the roadways, or at least marked them with cones, due to flooding

It also left several roads underwater, with levels rising.  Hwy 278, near Dead Man’s Curve, McCloy St. and Gaines St. are underwater, as well as many other areas, such as the Creekwood area, shown in this photo.

Members of the Monticello Fire Department quickly responded to a request from the Ridgeway Apartments, yesterday afternoon, during the power failure.

A few residents of the facility were in the elevator, during the outage, and were safely removed without any issues upon MFD’s arrival.

Clint Piggot and Tyler Phillips helping to clear roadway, clearing Old Hwy 13, yesterday, after the thunderstorm.

Clint and Tyler represent many other local residents who help out in their communities, when storms and other similar issues develop.

Thank you to all good neighbors!

Around 6:20 PM, Sunday evening, this photo was taken of a confirmed rotation near the Drew Memorial Hospital/UAM area.

This rotation specifically is the reason that tornado sirens were sounded. (more…)

Drew Central Schools will be closed today,  due to a power outage which is expected to last all day.

School will reopen tomorrow as normal.

Students should complete AMI Day 7 assignments or the next one in the packet if Day 7 has already been completed.

Of course,  countywide appreciation goes out to law enforcement and city/county road crews, who kept everything as “operable” as possible.

Contrary to rumors, there was no damage to the roof of Monticello Fire Station #2, near the UAM campus.

There is Not a Tornado Warning, at this 6:30, but there is concern one could develop.

Drew County is under a severe thunderstorm warning, and there was confirmed rotation over the Bowser Road area.

Stay close to  monticelloLive.com, for developing weather situations.