Pharmacy Worries
Billy Cole in the coffee shop at the Crossing, with the medicine he takes daily. With several major pharmacies closed due to the storm Monday, a lack of medicine could have created some medical problems. (H-W Photo/Michael Kipley)
Police Shooting Press Conference
Quincy Police Chief Rob Copley holds up a picture of Benjamin Joseph Biggs during a press conference Thursday, June 30, 2011 at City Hall. Authorities said Biggs, 24, shot two law enforcement officers before he was found dead in a Kingston residence. (H-W Photo/Phil Carlson)
Benjamin Joseph Biggs, 24, was found dead Wednesday evening inside this two-story house in unincorporated Kingston, east of Liberty. Authorities said Biggs, 24, shot two law enforcement officers, before fleeing. (H-W Photo/Phil Carlson)
Police Chase
Quincy Police crime scene technician Emily Pezzella walks around a wrecked police car Wednesday afternoon at Five Points in Adams County. A Quincy officer stopped a vehicle on Ill. 104 east of the airport and when the officer stepped out of the vehicle, gunfire was exchanged between the driver and the officer, Police Chief Rob Copley said. The suspect then backed into the squad car. (H-W Photo/Michael Kipley)
Fence Repair
Josh Milane, and Joann Capinigro try to fix Capinigro’s fence on So. 6th street Wednesday. As the adults try to repair the fence, damaged by the storm, her children take advantage of the mattress that was blown up against her fence. (H-W Photo/Michael Kipley)
Timber Troubles Slideshow with Audio
Click on above image to view slideshow of tree removal effort, as tree expert John Koch provides safety tips for getting the job done.
Storm Aftermath
Linemen with M.J. Electric, Des Moines, IA., replace power line poles on South 12th Street, Wednesday, June 29, 2011. (H-W Photo/Steve Bohnstedt)
Storm Cleanup
Gene Norris with Ameren from Monmouth, Il. rests on his truck after a days work, in front of a Ameren semi-trailer loaded with supplies, at the Ameren staging area on Locust in the old Penn-Daniels parking lot Tuesday. (H-W Photo/Michael Kipley)
Ervin McCone, crew leader with Wright Tree Service, West Des Moines Ia. cuts up a tree that is on the roof of 2010 Adams Tuesday. Tree service companies from all over the mid-west have come to the area to help clean up the downed trees, and also make a few bucks!
(H-W Photo/Michael Kipley)
STORM: DAY TWO
Children gather together with friends at a neighbor’s backyard to cool off in their pool as they wait for power to be restored to their homes Tuesday, June 28, 2011 (H-W Photo/Steve Bohnstedt)
Steve’s B&W Extras
Quincy Storm Scenes
A Jeep sits covered by a limb from a spruce tree near Fifth and Harrison Tuesday in Quincy. (H-W Photo/Phil Carlson)
A tree limb remains atop a car Tuesday in the 600 block of Monroe, where it apparently crushed the car and a motorcycle during Monday’s early morning storms. (H-W Photo/Phil Carlson)
A front porch is strewn in the front yard of a home in the 600 block of Monroe Tuesday morning in Quincy. (H-W Photo/Phil Carlson)
A sign in the front yard of a home at 18th and Cedar in Quincy Tuesday echoes the thoughts of many without power across west central Illinois and northeast Missouri in the aftermath of Monday’s severe storm. (H-W Photo/Phil Carlson)
A passing motorist slows to take in the scene Tuesday morning where a tree limb crushed both a motorcycle and car in the 600 block of Monroe. (H-W Photo/Phil Carlson)
Storm Cleanup Continues
Ameren linemen work on power lines in the 1600 block of Van Buren Monday evening in Quincy. (H-W Photo/Phil Carlson)
An enormous tree blocks South 12th Street Monday evening just south of the Jefferson intersection. City crews and private contractors are working nonstop to clear streets of trees and limbs. (H-W Photo/Phil Carlson)
Homeowner Chris Lane, center, prepares to load his grill with charcoal early Tuesday morning in the backyard of his home at 529 Van Buren. Lane said the tree limb in the background punched holes in his roof, leaving him without a stove or working bathroom. Helping Lane clear debris are his brother-in-law Brent Sparrow, left, and family friend Edward Walton. (H-W Photo/Phil Carlson)
Shelbina, Hannibal Storm Damage
A weary Sue Etem gazes at the damage outside her home from her front door at 308 W. Walnut Monday afternoon in Shelbina, Mo. Etem’s property, like many in town, saw downed trees and limbs scattered across the yard, as well as damage to her home and garage, and two automobiles damaged by the falling limbs. (H-W Photo/Phil Carlson)
Exterior view of Sue Etem’s home Monday afternoon in Shelbina, Mo. (H-W Photo/Phil Carlson)
Joey Jones, left, watches as her grandfather, Sam Kunce, cuts up an uprooted tree from Kunce’s mother’s house Monday afternoon in Shelbina, Mo. Residents said the northeast Missouri town was without power Monday, as downed limbs and uprooted trees were strewn throughout the area from early morning storms. (H-W Photo/Phil Carlson)
Motorists on eastbound U.S. 36 drive past toppled exit signs to Shelbina and other northeast Missouri towns Monday afternoon outside Shelbina, Mo. (H-W Photo/Phil Carlson)
A gas truck moves past an uprooted tree Monday afternoon in Shelbina, Mo. in the aftermath of severe storms that blew through the area earlier in the day. (H-W Photo/Phil Carlson)
Linemen work to restore power Monday afternoon on Center Street in Shelbina, Mo. Several residents said Monday afternoon that the entire town was without power, and most, if not all, businesses were closed.
(H-W Photo/Phil Carlson)
Homeowner Jamie Mundle, seen at right, walks past an uprooted maple tree in his front yard Monday morning at 3223 St. Mary’s Ave. in Hannibal, Mo. Mundle, who watched the tree being blown over from his living room window earlier in the morning, said he has seen vintage pictures of his home from the 1930s that showed the same tree. “It was a big tree then,” Mundle said of the image in the photographs, “so who really knows how old it was?” (H-W Photo/Phil Carlson)
Damage in Camp Point
Bob Walker, left, owner of Press Yours on U, screen printing shop and Deidre Diterle, niece of Ryan Dieterle, owner of the building, looks at the damage done to his silk screening press covered with insulation, after the roof was torn off the building and dropped down the street from 206 W. State st. in Camp Point Monday. (H-W Photo/Michael Kipley)
Karl Aden cuts up a tree that shattered and brushed the front of the house of Bob and Mary Lynn Baucom 200 E. Park st. in Camp Point Monday. (H-W Photo/Michael Kipley)
The house on N Ohio owned by Abbie Coggshell had the roof smashed in by a tree in the front yard. A neighbor said that Coggshell moved out two weeks ago, but still owned the house. (H-W Photo/Michael Kipley)
Mike Bush, owner of Mike’s Tree Service cuts up a tree that landed on the back corner of the house and back porch of the home of Ryan and Julie Viehmeyer, 109 W Park st. in Camp Point. (H-W Photo/Michael Kipley)
Rusty Hahn, left, family friend and electrician in Camp Point tells Jamie Feramisco 338 N Ohio, Camp Point, that the wires in her yard are safe. Feramisco had three of her own trees and one of her neighbor’s all taken down by the storm. Because her power was out, causing the sump pump not to operate, she woke up to a foot and a half of water in her basement. (H-W Photo/Michael Kipley)
From left, Rodney Voss, David Croxton, and Tom Bennett, from Adams Telephone, try to figure out how to repair the fiber optic lines taken down at W. State and N Main, by many of the fallen trees in Camp Point. The line carries telephone, cable, and internet to many of the customers in Camp Point. (H-W Photo/Michael Kipley)
West Quincy Fireworks Stand
Nick Smith, son of owner Dave Smith, Dave’s Fireworks Stand, West Quincy, prepares to unbolt a shredded tent and replace it with another one. Smith is hoping to be up and running by Tuesday. All four fireworks stands in West Quincy were destroyed. (H-W Photo/Michael Kipley)
Massive storm of June 2011
A large tree snapped at the base falling across a house at 629 South 12th from a storm that was reported to have 80 mile and hour winds and swept through Quincy, Il. after midnight June 27, 2011 (H-W Photo/Michael Kipley)
A large tree snapped off at the ground and fell across a car parked on so 13th street at 13th and Washington from a storm that was reported to have 80 mile and hour winds and swept through Quincy, Il. after midnight June 27, 2011 (H-W Photo/Michael Kipley)
A house at 19th and Adams has a carport from two houses west, and a trampoline from two houses north, collected in the front yard from a storm that was reported to have 80 mile and hour winds and swept through Quincy, Il. after midnight June 27, 2011 (H-W Photo/Michael Kipley)
A large tree snapped at the base at 13th street just north of Washington blocking 13th street from a storm that was reported to have 80 mile and hour winds and swept through Quincy, Il. after midnight June 27, 2011 (H-W Photo/Michael Kipley)
South 12th street was blocked off at Jefferson from a fallen tree just south of Jefferson from a storm that was reported to have 80 mile and hour winds and swept through Quincy, Il. after midnight June 27, 2011 (H-W Photo/Michael Kipley)
An electric pole on Spruce between 3rd and 4th snapped in half and is hanging by the connected wires. (H-W Photo/Michael Kipley)
A large tree in front of 716 Payson uprooted and fell across the front of the house next door to the east from a storm that was reported to have 80 mile and hour winds and swept through Quincy, Il. after midnight June 27, 2011 (H-W Photo/Michael Kipley)
A large tree at 10th and Monroe uprooted at the base and fell across Monroe blocking the Monroe street. (H-W Photo/Michael Kipley)
A large branch from a fallen tree at 10th and Monroe fell across a truck bed trailer from a storm that was reported to have 80 mile and hour winds and swept through Quincy, Il. after midnight June 27, 2011 (H-W Photo/Michael Kipley)
Storm photos from readers
State Street was closed Monday morning because of a downed tree between Sixth and Seventh streets in Quincy.
A view from a car window looking west on Maine Street near Washington Park.
A downed tree in a parking lot near Eighth and Washington.
Downed tree limbs surround a house near 22nd and Vermont.
A canopy lies in the middle of Spruce south of QU Stadium.
A car is buried under a fallen tree near 20th and Vermont.
A downed tree near Ninth and Kentucky knocked down a power line.
An uprooted tree lies across a house in the 1100 block of Jefferson.
HEROES Among Us June 2011
Click on image to view the “Heroes” portrait gallery. See the entire Heroes special section complete with stories in this Sunday’s Herald-Whig.
Cavemen/Richmond Baseball
Cavemen’s catcher Michael Tucker and Richmond’s Derek Coverstone collide as Tucker tags out Coverstone at home plate during baseball action Thursday night, June 23, 2011 at Clemens Field in Hannibal. (H-W Photo/Steve Bohnstedt)
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Much Ado
Tanner Jacobs, playing the part of Benedick, and Tara Hibbert, playing the part of Beatrice, rehearse a love scene, as the Quincy University Summer Stock Players’ rehearse for “Much Ado About Nothing” Thursday, June 23, 2011 at Washington Park. The group will perform the play Saturday at 4 p.m. as part of the Mid-Summer Arts Faire in Quincy,
(H-W Photo/Steve Bohnstedt)
Gems/Richmond 2011
Gems’ D.W. Warner tags out Richmond’s Nolan Earley on a second base steal attempt during baseball action Wednesday evening, June 22, 2011 at QU-Stadium at Quincy. (H-W Photo/Steve Bohnstedt)
The Gems – Richmond game is delayed momentarily after the sprinkler system turned on in the middle of play Wednesday evening, June 22, 2011 at QU-Stadium in Quincy. (H-W Photo/Steve Bohnstedt)
Apartment Fire
Adam Peters, left, talks with Quincy Fire Dept. Lt. Alan Munger outside Peters’ Country Club Heights apartment Wednesday, June 22, 2011. (H-W Photo/Phil Carlson)
Kitten Rescue
Clarrisa Shankland, 12, of Quincy, and Bradley Eston, 10, of Quincy, offer water to a kitten they rescued near the Walter Hammond Day Care Center, 906 Lind Street, Tuesday, June 21, 2011.
(H-W Photo/Steve Bohnstedt)
Walter Hammond Day Care Center
Lisa Sams, former executive director of the Walter Hammond Day Care Center jots down items needed to be addressed for a planned community clean-up day for the center, during a walk through of the facility with board members Tuesday, June 21, 2011. The center could reopen this year after shutting its doors last year because of the delay of state funds.
(H-W Photo/Steve Bohnstedt)
Mr. Clean
Eric Childers, owner of Eric Childers Prefered Motors, Quincy, washes a truck on his lot on Broadway Tuesday, June 21, 2011. He had the day off, was bored, so he decided to wash the cars at the sales lot, he said. (H-W Photo/Steve Bohnstedt)
2011 Pepsi Little People’s Golf Championship
Kristofer Heller from Mattoon, Il., comes out of a sand trap on the 15th hole at Spring Lake Country Club during the first round of the Division 7-B, boys 16 – 17 Little Peoples Golf Championship Tuesday on his way to a 76 for the first round. (H-W Photo/Michael Kipley)
Jamie Ehrhart of Quincy, Division 7-G, 16 – 17 girls, chips to the pin at the 9th green. Ehrhart finished the day with a 91 at Westview. (H-W Photo/Michael Kipley)
Lucy Clark from Quincy, waits her turn to putt on the 8th green as she watches another player in her group in the 14-15 girls, Division 6-G, at Westview Golf Coarse Tuesday. Clark finished the day at 84. (H-W Photo/Michael Kipley)
Dallas Castagna from Louisiana Mo., hits a tee shot off the 11th tee in the boys 14-15, Division 6-B, at Westview Golf Coarse Tuesday. (H-W Photo/Michael Kipley)
Germany’s Laurids Lohr looks over the other golfers as he listens to the starter ramble off the instructions before teeing off on No. 1 tee in Division 4-B, boys 10-11, Tuesday at Westview Golf Coarse Tuesday. (H-W Photo/Michael Kipley)
