The Shell station on Bardstown Road near the Gardiner Lane shopping center remained open despite the giant billboard crashing in to the pump area during the storm on Saturday, August 13.
I find it perhaps a little ironic that Mother Nature took out a billboard prompting people to fight against the EPA in order to keep coal jobs in tact.
The steel support posts of the billboard were twisted and bent.

What started out as an average summer day with a 40 percent chance of thunderstorms, quickly turned into an atypical summer day with an unusual and seemingly unannounced tornado outbreak with very little lead time.
Initially, a very small thunderstorm turned tornadic, crossing the county from west to east. Several witnesses reported funnel clouds as the storm traveled across the county.
This week will mark the official kick-off of the 2011 Kentucky Derby Festival.
Venue set-up and preparations for Derby Festival’s Opening Ceremonies: Thunder Over Louisville and Chow Wagon began today, Monday, April 11.
The public venue runs North of Main between Clay and 8th Street on the Kentucky side.
After two very warm days in Kentuckiana, a strong cold front will be sweeping its way through the region, bringing with it a good chance for thunderstorms and severe weather. Severe weather is defined by surface wind gusts exceeding 50 knots (60 m.p.h.), or hail size exceeding three quarters of an inch.
Most of us won’t mind the passing weather so much, but the big temperature adjustment is expected to make people complain.
It was only a few days ago that Kentuckiana saw its first episode of gnarly springtime weather; tornadoes, heavy rain, local flooding, and dangerous lightning. As Spring approaches we can expect with certainty the potential for similar weather phenomena to occur.
• Rep. Yarmuth donates his salary (again). [WLKY]
• The Iron Quarter is coming down. [LEO]
• SNOWPOCALYPSE (elsewhere). [WHAS]
A snow storm is a brewing and though that means a snow day for some, others still have to fight the elements. Find out when a route was last salted, pretreated, or plowed using Louisville's interactive snow routes map.
I can't really give a fair assessment of the tool, as I only attempted to give it a whirl on one occasion using my uber geeky Macbook; which tends to have issues from time to time with compatibility.
