Bernie Toso started smoking meat on Monday for Saturday’s Symphony in the Flint Hills. And, while he was loading the first of 2,600 pounds of brisket flats and pork butts into his smokers, workers at the symphony site were trying to repair the damage done by a storm that swept through the Cedar Point area.
Toso estimated that 60 percent of the tents were up when the storm struck at the Doyle Creek Land and Cattle ranch outside Cedar Point.
“The storm that went through there last night created a large supply of recyclable aluminum,” Toso said Monday afternoon as he loaded brisket into smokers at Bad Ol’ Bern’s BBQ & Catering.
Massive aluminum tent posts crumpled under the force of the wind and brought down tents, including a patrons’ tent Toso estimated to be about 100 by 120 or 140 feet.
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