The coordinates will take you to the Ruskin Heights Tornado Memorial. The Ruskin Heights Tornado Memorial is on the site of the path of a devastating tornado (pictures in gallery) that occurred on May 20, 1957. The Ruskin Heights Tornado began west of Williamsburg, Kansas. It crossed four counties. After one hour and thirty-eight minutes, the tornado finally relented somewhere east of Knob Town, Missouri. Thirty-nine people from Kansas and Missouri lost their lives due to the tornado within 48-hours. Subsequently, five others lost their lives from injuries related to the tornado.
East of the brick memorial is the tree arbor portion of the memorial. Each tree is dedicated to one of the victims of the Ruskin Heights Tornado. Each tree has an individual plaque.
All of the information you need to solve the puzzle will be found at the memorial site. Once solved, the cache should be easily retrieved. The distance between the memorial and the cache is significant enough that motorized transportation between waypoints is recommended.
Please do not park on 111th Street/Red Bridge Road.
The coordinates for the cache are N 38 5A.BCD W 094 EF.GHI
A – There are three small one-word plaques on the front of the memorial. The number of letters in the single word on the one-word plaque that is most toward the north.
B – The number of fatalities listed from Martin City, Missouri.
C – The combined number of fatalities listed from Ottawa, Kansas and Spring Hill, Kansas.
D – The number of trees on the land island containing the brick memorial.
E – The number of light fixtures under the cover of the memorial.
F – The missing number in the following statement. The memorial was originally dedicated on May __8, 1958.
G – The missing number in the following statement. The path of the tornado was __1 miles long.
H – The sixth tree in the tree arbor is dedicated to a man with this number of letters in his last name.
I – The first tree in the tree arbor is dedicated to a woman with this number of letters in her last name.
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