Wednesday, October 19, 2011

Weekend in Missouri

This last weekend, I took 3 kids with me to Missouri for a mission trip/race. Thursday night we met my friend, Dan Wing in Carthage so that we could go work in Joplin the next day. We were sent to Emily's house. She's a shut-in that didn't actually suffer any tornado damage, but still had some clean up to do. Technically, all of Joplin's residents are tornado victims, but some have houses, and some do not. At Emily's house, we picked up a lot of trash, took out 5 bushes, and got a dead limb out of a tree.
Emily showing our crew what bushes need to be taken out. The little boy is Louie, Emily's 8 year-old grandson that lives with her. He attatched himself to Dan for most of the day. You could see that he needs a male role model quite badly.
Josiah getting the dead limb out of the tree.Me picking up trash.
Joplin. You could tell the line of destruction. There were houses, and then there were not.
The hospital. We were told that there used to be trees all around it so that it was hard to see it.
My favorite picture.Aren't these flowers beautiful?
This is what they were growing on. This is a pile of what is left of someone's house. There were Christmas decorations, children's toys, towels, a baseball cap, and who knows what else in this pile. I can't even imagine having all of your belongings bulldozed into a rubble heap like this. Heartbreaking.
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Katie said...

What an awesome experience for those teeny-boppers! And to be in St. Louis again...Never thought I would miss the city--maybe just the people. It was good to see Jenny and Dan.
Tell Alan hi for me.

October 30, 2011 at 1:04 PM

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