Just drove through Joplin, MO

[proud2BlibKansan]

It's just incredible. Three months later and the damage is horrific. It's hard to believe there weren't more deaths.

[dembotoz]

1. it takes time to rebuild a city.

i wonder if eric cantor will try to cut rehab fund on a yearly basis because it will take years....

[Ruby the Liberal]

7. How about we convince him to refocus money on 'nation building' here.

:grr:

[Warpy]

2. What got knocked down in 30 seconds or less

is going to take years to rebuild, it always does.

I just hope there's enough temporary housing for people who lost it all.

[proud2BlibKansan]

3. We couldn't get a hotel reservation in Joplin

No vacancies.

[liberal N proud]

4. The scars from a tornado last a lifetime

And that one was more horrific than most.

[a la izquierda]

5. My husband and I drove through a few weeks back.

Horrific is right...and even creepier on that day, because the sky was black and roiling. We got walloped on the drive out of town.

[PoliticAverse]

6. There are some crews from Joplin working on Eastern Long Island fixing things after hurricane Irene.

[NYC_SKP]

8. I visited Greensburg Kansas one year after it was struck dead-center by an F5 tornado.

Incredible.

Like a post-nuclear scene but most of the debris removed and some new buildings in place, including the state-of-the-art gallery and new school gymnasium.

A high school girl pointed out to me the hole that used to be the basement to the house where her grandma lived, and died, in the tornado.

:cry:

Behind the new gym are several storm bunkers, above ground, like shipping containers, in case there's another strike.

This is Greensburg:



Looking better now:



:P

[proud2BlibKansan]

9. Greensburg had the most wonderful Dem state rep

One of the few Democrats in that part of Kansas. He went on to be state treasurer and was beat by a tea partier last election.

[nadinbrzezinski]

10. And DU'ers were caught in that too