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Several funnel clouds seen in area None touched down; no major damage reported in county “The tail would come down out of the clouds. It was well defined.”
By JILLIAN DUCHNOWSKI jduchnowski@shawmedia.com DeKALB – DeKalb County Sheriff Chief Deputy Gary Dumdie watched a funnel cloud twist out of the clouds outside Esmond during a string of storms that produced golf-ball-sized hail in Waterman. “I was watching the one funnel cloud in that area,” Dumdie said. “That never hit the ground that I saw. The tail would come down out of the clouds. It was well defined.” Funnel clouds were spot-
Gary Dumdie DeKalb County Sheriff chief deputy
ted west of DeKalb, west of Sycamore, near the Walmart at 2300 Sycamore Road in DeKalb, and in Cortland and Malta, Dumdie said. The National Weather Service received no reports of any funnel clouds touching ground
Friday evening, meteorologist Gino Izzi said. The funnels likely formed when wind from dissipating thunderstorms collided with active thunderstorms, National Weather Service meteorologist Casey Sullivan said. The thunderstorms were not strong enough to produce traditional tornadoes. The sheriff’s department received no reports of major damage, although a tree fell onto a road in Shabbona, Dumdie said. Sirens sounded in Genoa, Sycamore, DeKalb, Malta and Cortland. DeKalb County was un-
der a thunderstorm warning from 7:19 to 7:40 p.m. During that time, radar estimated that between 2 and 2.5 inches of rain fell in the area between Waterman and central DeKalb, with little to no rain falling north of there, although rainfall reports were not immediately available from observers to confirm the radar, Sullivan said. About an hour later, storms were heading south through northern DeKalb County with torrential rain and plenty of lightning, Izzi said. For today, there’s only a slight chance of rain.
Monica Maschak – mmaschak@shawmedia.com
A funnel cloud forms over DeKalb on Friday evening. The National Weather Service didn’t receive any reports of funnel clouds touching ground, meteorologist Gino Izzi said.
Americans with Ebola returning to U.S.
AVIATION PROGRAM PRIMES SUCCESS
Patients will be treated in Atlanta By MIKE STOBBE The Associated Press
Careers taking flight Photos by Monica Maschak – mmaschak@shawmedia.com
Kalvin Parker (left), 18, and Fly America instructor Ryan Yochum, 22, prepare to take off for their last flying lesson together Tuesday at the DeKalb Municipal Airport. Yochum received his orders from the U.S. Air Force to report to San Antonio, Texas, to begin training to pilot unmanned aircraft on Monday. Parker will start school at Stanford University.
KEC trains future pilots; industry talks of shortage By KATIE DAHLSTROM
By the numbers
kdahlstrom@shawmedia.com DeKALB – Ryan Yochum and Kalvin Parker knew they were taking their last flight together as they ascended into the sky over DeKalb. In a few days, their careers would pull them to different parts of the country. Yochum, 22, will be an officer in the U.S. Air Force, reporting for duty at Randolph Air Force Base in San Antonio, Texas, on Monday. Meanwhile, Parker, 18, will venture to Stanford University, where he’ll major in electrical engineering. Yochum, an instructor with Fly America, the pilot school run out of DeKalb’s airport, and Parker, a student, had a connection before they began working together this summer. Both graduated from the Kishwaukee Education Consortium’s aviation program, which has been teaching students about flying for a decade. Some 40 KEC aviation students have gone on to become pilots in
n KEC aviation students who have become pilots: 40 n Number of hours required for a private pilot’s license: 40 n Number of hours required to be a co-pilot on a passenger and cargo plane: 1,500
Source: Kishwaukee Education Consortium
Yochum and Parker check the fuel of a Piper Warrior before their last flight together Tuesday. the past decade, aiding an aviation industry that some fear could face a severe pilot shortage in the next two decades as pilots retire, and standards and costs increase.
in the views of cornfields, homes and businesses dotting green space below. About 15 minutes later, they landed the plane at DeKalb Taylor Municipal Airport. “That was my last one,” Yochum said, head hanging, his feet on the earth.
On Tuesday, Parker flew circles over DeKalb in a Piper Warrior, ‘I’M NOT A DESK GUY’ Yochum went through the KEC a small single-engine plane, with Yochum in the passenger’s seat. They climbed to 2,000 feet, soaking See FUTURE PILOTS, page A9
NEW YORK – Two American aid workers seriously ill with Ebola will be brought from West Africa to Atlanta for treatment in one of the most tightly sealed isolation units in the country, officials said Friday. One is expected to arrive today, and the other a few days later, according to Atlanta’s Emory University Hospital, where they will be treated. They are due to arrive in a private jet outfitted with a special, portable tent designed for transporting patients with highly infectious diseases. It will be the first time anyone infected with the disease is brought into the country. U.S. officials are confident the patients can be treated without putting the public in any danger. Ebola is spread through direct contact with blood or other bodily fluids from an infected person, not through the air. The two Americans – Dr. Kent Brantly and Nancy Writebol – worked for U.S. missionary groups in Liberia at a hospital that treated Ebola patients. The State Department and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention are assisting the groups in their transfer. The government is working to ensure that any Ebola-related evacuations “are carried out safely, thereby protecting the patient and the American public,” State Department spokeswoman Marie Harf said in a statement released Friday. A Department of Defense spokesman said Dobbins Air Reserve Base in Marietta, Georgia, will be used for the transfer. The aircraft is a Gulfstream jet fitted with what essentially is a specialized, collapsible clear tent designed to house a single patient and stop any infectious germs from escaping. It was built to transfer CDC employees exposed to
See EBOLA, page A9
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