Hi Wharf,
Perhaps there was the removal of guns from the rubble of homes, etc., but there is much, IMO, suspect about what the writer claims about Greensburg, KS.
My father-in-law, 99 years old at the time, had JUST (lol) moved into the only nursing home in Greensburg a few month before the tornado. I worriedly called him that morning and, believe it or not, he answered the phone at the nursing home. Anyway, we learned that all the residents were about to be moved to a facility in Wichita, KS. Two days later, we made the 6 hr. trip. I stayed in Wichita with him to visit and make sure everything was in order there to take care of him. My husband went over to Greensburg (1 hr. away) to check out the damage to his father's holdings....farms, equipment, and commercial property in the town. My father-in-law was the most prosperous resident in that county with millions of dollars worth of farm equipment and outbuildings, etc. and almost all of that was destroyed, though oddly, the 2-story farmhouse was almost intact.
At any rate, my husband never said a word about not being allowed in to look around, and I know he met with some other local farmers about contracting some of the migrant harvesters to come in and do the June wheat harvest. Maybe he took a dirt county road in....I'll ask him. He's actually in Greensburg right now. My cute father-in-law wanted to live to be 100. He did that and then died in his sleep this summer!!! |
