Flashback Friday.......

It's time for Flashback Friday!

Today, I am going to do an Auction Flashback. On April 24th, 2008 Stock Auction did a live public Auction for Steve Anderson and Anderson Construction in Mapleton, Iowa. On April 9, 2011 Mapleton was hit by an F3 Tornado. 

Today, Ron had the opportunity to speak with Steve since the Tornado and we learned that the buildings where the auction was held were either destroyed or badly damaged. 

This was the main office. We "borrowed" this office alot during the Auction setup process and following the auction till we packed up and headed home. Kind of sad to see this building like this, I know Steve was very proud of this building. 

Steve told Ron and himself and his wife were actually driving around Mapleton checking out the storm when it started to hail, so they decided to drive their pickup into the shop that was on the property. As they pulled in they saw the tornado coming. They left the doors to the shop open hit the floor boards and covered their heads. The whole west side of the shop was destroyed and probably the only thing that saved the part they were in was that they left the door open........

Here is an aerial view of the area where we had the auction. You can see in the bottom of this photo the open area with the large shop and office....that was where our Auction was.....Glad it wasn't 2008.....