A National Weather Service survey team arrived in less than 48 hours after the tornado hit. Damage from the EF1 twister, even to some homes, was found already repaired in the local Amish community.

That’s what Dustin Norman of the weather service found in Branch County, Michigan, a few days after a tornado Wednesday with peak winds of 100 mph (160 kph). The Amish had put new shingles on a ...

LAWRENCE TOWNSHIP, Mich. (AP) — A SUV struck an Amish buggy Wednesday in southwestern Michigan, killing an 8-year-old girl and injuring a 12-year-old boy, the only people in the horse-drawn ...

BETHEL, Michigan — No contractors, no repair estimates, no haggling with the insurance company: After a tornado struck an Amish community in Michigan, the work was underway even before the National ...

That's what Dustin Norman of the weather service found in Branch County, Michigan, a few days after a tornado Wednesday with peak winds of 100 mph. The Amish had put new shingles on a home ...

He said the situation was similar in an Amish area hit by a tornado that day in Adams County, Indiana, 90 miles (145 kilometers) south. “Once something gets damaged, they just fix it,” Norman ...

The Amish generally are private and insular and maintain a degree of separation from common society. Approximately 61% of the North American Amish population lives in Ohio, Pennsylvania and ...