TOWN OF ALTO, WI (WTAQ-WLUK) – Farm buildings toppled over and taken off their foundations is what Andy Mouw and his family found after storms passed through Fond du Lac County Tuesday night.
“It’s a Century Farm and literally in the two minutes I was downstairs it went to nothing,” said Mouw.
7-year-old Ryden Mouw says it was his idea to head to the basement when the weather turned bad.
“Because I thought that big tree was going to hit our house.”
“Right at that time, I was putting them down, I was looking out the door and I could see all the pieces of barn flying past the door, the front door, while we were running down in the basement,” said Andy Mouw.
The Mouws are leaving most of the damage as it is until insurance workers can come to take a look.
Down the street, on County Road AS, the Mouws’ neighbors are making progress cleaning up what is left of their family farm.
And a little further down, Tim Tenpas tells FOX 11 he was lucky to only lose a machine shed.
“It is a lot of family farms. They’re all getting bigger and bigger now of course, but this area seems to be more of a family farm area.”
Tenpas says his family was getting ready to milk their cows when the storm rolled in.
“Storms often come through about that time, but this one was a little bit different. We probably shouldn’t have been in the barn.”
With a visit already from the insurance company, Tenpas is focused on getting things back to normal.
“Now we’ll just have to get things cleaned up and start going with a new shed and a few other things that have got to be done.”
