Posted on 05/05/2007 12:04:35 AM PDT by silentknight
My sister and I went to Greensburg today. I kept getting lost while she was driving around. I lived there from 1970 till 1995, and kept getting lost today! It looks like a wasteland. My sister drove up Main street from the south, and until we got to the high school, I didn’t even know what street we were on. I didn’t realize the damage to the Dillons was that severe. The pictures I’d seen of it didn’t show the worst of the damage.
It is hard to believe and hard to describe to those haven’t been there. If you came up from the south on Main, you passed the home of my brother, which had stood on the east side (facing west). This once was the 1200 block on South Main.
Sir, may ask where your father lived? Just curious.
Thanks for coming out. I do appreciate it. Also, I can understand perfectly why your dad isn’t sure if he is coming back to us or not.
He lived just south of the 5 way intersection on South Spruce. I grew up in the trailer court across the street from the Best Western, and didn’t even recognize what was left of it when we drove by it. Mostly overnight campers, but at one time there were a “whole” 5 trailers there. lol
I saw less damage than that after the Gulf war. It was eerie driving around and not recognizing anything for block after block, and suddenly realizing where you are. My friends moms’ house lost it’s roof and upper floor. That was two blocks East of the courthouse on Florida street.
I’m waiting to hear if they’ll be able to salvage any of the high school, or if they’re going to have to tear it all down and start fresh. It WAS 3 stories tall, and now the bottom floor is all that’s left, and the South part from the Auditorium on South is totally gone. It’s a blessing that the tornado didn’t hit during school hours, because the grade school just isn’t there anymore, and everyone in it would have died.
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