It rapidly regained power and roared north, much to the dismay of A. I. Root, president of a Medina, Ohio, company that sold beekeeping supplies. As early as Monday he watched his personal barometer begin to drop “in a very unusual way,” yet all he saw from the Weather Bureau were telegrams forecasting fair skies for Monday and Tuesday, partly cloudy conditions on Wednesday. Instead he got a destructive windstorm that tore his company apart. He wrote to Moore, “Now wasn’t it a mistake that there wasn’t anything said about the big blow?”
