Journal Star
LONDON MILLS Surrounded in darkness by driving winds and rain, with a tornado nearby, about 200 Boy Scouts and their chaperones faced a scary situation last weekend.
Some of the children who were spending the week at Ingersoll Scout Reservation were driven to tears by the storm. It struck about 11 p.m. June 18.
As the next morning dawned, it became clear damage was extensive around the 960-acre Boy Scouts of America camp located along the Fulton-Knox county border. Summer camp scheduled for this week was postponed.
Those who rode out the storm emerged uninjured. According to some of them, that might be attributable to a time-honored Boy Scout motto: