If you live in the United States and you have not heard about the tornado that went through Joplin, you've been living under a rock! I finally went there today, to help somewhere as you need to go with a purpose, and worked with a gal who was serving free meals to anyone working on clean-up, etc, etc.
As they say "Pictures cannot even tell the whole story" and they don't but I tried to take a few pictures that will help some of you to understand. There were pictures I missed, and pictures that didn't turn out as I saw it, but here they are. There has been some clean-up as it's been over a month already, but there is still so very much to do!
Let me first show the food train that was established in the O'Reilly Auto Parts parking lot. We served people who stopped by to eat, and we took meals around to neighborhoods where there are people working, and people who refuse to leave their homes due to the potential of looting, etc, etc.
If you see the blue in the background, that's not a lake, it's a blue tarp on the roof of the house across the street. This was on Rangeline and 14th. The tornado seemed to run down 14th Street, and if you lived on one side, you were almost unscathed, if you lived on the other side, not so lucky!
While driving around we came upon a house that not only blew down, it burned! Talk about adding insult to injury. This appeared to be one of those old, brick, two-story, turn of the century houses, and now is less than a shell.
Further down that same street, this lot was cleaned off, but the washer and dryer were left.
This house was in fairly nice shape, except for the 2x6 (?) that was spiked through the porch roof!
There were signs all over for help, including clean-up, roof repair, even counseling. This was one of the more interesting, non-denominational signs I saw.
The clean-up will take months, the rebuilding will take years. Now I can only imagine what the people of New Orleans went through after Katrina, and they're still trying to rebuild!
As they say "Pictures cannot even tell the whole story" and they don't but I tried to take a few pictures that will help some of you to understand. There were pictures I missed, and pictures that didn't turn out as I saw it, but here they are. There has been some clean-up as it's been over a month already, but there is still so very much to do!
Let me first show the food train that was established in the O'Reilly Auto Parts parking lot. We served people who stopped by to eat, and we took meals around to neighborhoods where there are people working, and people who refuse to leave their homes due to the potential of looting, etc, etc.
If you see the blue in the background, that's not a lake, it's a blue tarp on the roof of the house across the street. This was on Rangeline and 14th. The tornado seemed to run down 14th Street, and if you lived on one side, you were almost unscathed, if you lived on the other side, not so lucky!
The clean-up will take months, the rebuilding will take years. Now I can only imagine what the people of New Orleans went through after Katrina, and they're still trying to rebuild!
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