Two of my best friends are from Greensburg, Kansas. The town that is now gone, destroyed by a tornado. I have been there a few times and it saddens me to think of what all of those people must be feeling right now. Her family was okay and the their farm by some miracle spared. Read this... All the churches were destroyed. Every business on main street was demolished. The town's fire engines were crushed and other crumpled vehicles were thrown around. Tree trunks stood bare, stripped of most of their branches. The fate of the town's claim to fame — the world's biggest hand dug well — was unknown because it was buried under a mountain of debris; the gift store at the well had disappeared. For decades, meteorite hunters from throughout the world have been drawn here to hunt for meteorites. The town's extensive meteorite collection, including one weighing 1,000 pound, was one of the casualties of the storm. "It is very scary right now," said Hewitt, who lost his home in the storm. Hewitt estimated 95 percent of the town of 1,500 was destroyed and predicted rescue efforts could take days as survivors could be trapped in basements and under rubble. "This is one of the most devastating tornadoes we have had in Kansas," said U.S. Rep. Jerry Moran. ‘All of Main Street is gone’
At a shelter in neighboring Haviland, Cheryll Behm said her home in Greensburg is probably repairable, unlike the rest of the town. "I am concerned Greensburg never will be built," said Behm, a nurse's aide at the Greensburg hospital. "There is no place to go back to work to. All of Main Street is gone." A small town like that isn't like it is here where I live. You have to move, there aren't just jobs around. Its really in the middle of nowhere. Many of the farms there will never be able to recover. Most of them barely get by as it is. I just can't imagine what they must be feeling and thinking. 
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