Flooding Rains, High Winds and Lightning Damage!

Since midnight we have received 7.20" of rain. Debris has been scattered along creek banks and pinestraw areas have been washed. Bunkers are washed severely and will take several days to restore. Lightning struck the tree next to #3 green and a couple of large trees on #8 were blown over in the high winds. Less than 2 weeks removed from the crippling lightning strike to our irrigation system, it has suffed more damage. Constant lightning has blow many fuses and damaged on couse satellite components.The majority of our resources will used to get the course back in playable condition by the weekend.

Bunker on #9

Trees next to #8 tee

Tree hit by lighting on #3

Lightning Strike

On 7/18 a bolt of lightning struck the ground in front of #18 green. I wrote a short story of the event and the damage it caused and sent it to James Spann of abc33/40. Below is the link to the weather blog that he posted it to. You may have to scoll down because of new material added periodically.

http://www.alabamawx.com/