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Advanced Severe Weather Spotters Jim Westover, KB9KBK, and Phil Bogacki, KB9KEE, were able to gain permission to enter the most severely damaged areas of Oakfield Wisconsin. Their pictures recorded a scene of tragic and compelling destruction. The welcome sign to Oakfield hardly reveals the devastation the small Fond Du Lac County town endured on July 18. 1996. The following pictures reveal the damage as it appeared only two days after the disaster. An entire neighborhood reduced to rubble.