The Fox Valley’s massive tornado upended a key Assembly race

Three candidates running for the 53rd Assembly District said July's EF-3 tornado put their campaign in perspective As an EF-3 tornado tore through the Fox Valley, Becky Nichols took shelter in the basement of her century-old home. Nichols lives in Menasha’s hard-hit Doty Island neighborhood and remembers hearing her storm door flapping “open and closed, open and closed” in the wind. “Part of me wanted to go upstairs and latch that door, but the other part of me was like, ‘No, Becky, you need to stay in the basement,’” she said. No corporate filter. When she came upstairs, Nichols said it was raining inside the house. Part of her roof had been torn off in the storm and landed in her backyard, requiring her family to temporarily find a new place to live. “We are among the displaced, like so many others in this community,” Nichols said. “It’s hard to leave your home.

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