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When did it become a Presidential responsibility to visit every disaster that strikes this country? Isn’t that the governor’s job? I’d hope the money spent to fly Air Force One to KS would be better spent helping rebuild or am I missing something key here?

I also naively assumed Kansans were made of tougher stuff than to be whining about a visit from the president. I miscalculated?

It’s not a responsibility, but it would be nice. It heartens the people. Of course, Kansas is not New Orleans, and the folks there will survive without whining or asking for handouts.

ok, the comment about the Pres visiting may have come out wrong, I was quite upset at the time I posted it, he is coming though on Wednesday.
Final NWS report on the tornado is that it was 1.7 miles wide, and an EF-5 (first ever on the new scale).

There were 2 older women found in the basement of a church last night, unharmed. And today they found the owner of the rexall drug store ( Richard Huckriede) (unconfirmed by media)alive also. http://www.ksn.com/news/local/7301591.html is a KSN piece on him.

Ok, from what I’ve heard some looting, but not by people from there. I would love to be a fly on the wall when they have to face their commanding officer. I am a Gulf War Vet myself. 3 1/2 years Kansas Army National Guard (Pratt, ks) and 4 years active duty in the Air Force.

I grew up in Greensburg, but now live in Wichita. My sister, her sister-in-law, and my father were supposed to go into Greensburg today to see what they could salvage.

I wish you could see, with your own eyes, the ancient
vehicles going in and out of Greensburg. It looks
like an old news reel of the Korean War. It isn’t
whining to say that a big part of the Kansas Guard
and its equipment is not available. However, I
would be the first to admit that old, slow vehicles
are better than none.