Greensburg, Kansas: Gamble Farms

and their garden...

I think maybe their daughter has been by today and worked on the garden

A small rainbow over Greensburg

And the storms seem to continue to build up. Won't that make all those farmers happy!

In Mullinville, the wind picks up and so do the dirt devils

See the storm clouds coming...

But they just keep playing!

Kim thinks she sees rotation in the clouds...

and they finally pull them from the field as it starts to rain; notice to the South is looks fine...

One inning in; we had checked the radar at the house, so we knew this was going to happen

The girls pile in ...

as it pours outside.

And it starts to HAIL! We didn't know that was going to happen!

We return from Kinsley and Larnad for more parts.

Kim feeds the calves.

She gives me a tour of the cracks...

Every single wall has a crack.

Even the engineer was impressed with some.

Right after the tornado, there were no cracks...

Apparently, it could take 2 or 3 years for it to settle...

Which means it is best just to gut it and put up sheetrock...

There is not a single wall that doesn't have a crack...

and she finds new ones all the time.

And dirt coming in, probably from when the house was originally built or from the dust bowl of the dirty 30's.

Damage is a huge hidden tornado cost...

especially since originally, the insurance agent said $700 for this repair...HA!

That was before it showed up.

All angles of cracks and all sizes...

They need a FEMA Trailor to live in while they cut this house, but they don't qualify because they have insurance.

But, it is obvious that between having to fix the foundation of the house by gutting the basement as well as every wall, this will be a longer recovery than just being able to rebuild.

Kim shows me the time capsule found at the school. It will be opened at the July 4 celebration so the whole community can participate.

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