Marathon Pundit: My Kansas Kronikles: Greensburg, the fall and rise, part four

Most of the rubble from Greensburg had been removed when I arrived there from the Gypsum Hills last month. Up on the left, all of the house are gone on this street, only a what's left a downtown building can be seen. The trees, as you can see, also suffered great damage from the May 4 tornado.

The otherwise immaculate buildings, with only the foundations and parts of the brick walls surviving, are from downtown Greensburg. The grain tower, seemingly the town's sentintel, is in the background, along with the Cenex gas station I blogged about in my last Greensburg post.

Yes, there still are some destroyed homes that need to be cleared away. The home below, now rubble, once heard laughter, crying, singing, and humming. Now all it hears are the western Kansas winds.

Not even the street signs survived the tornado, but there still is a Wisconsin Street in Greensburg.

In my last post, I blogged about the three banks in new buildings in Greensburg. The foundation and these two safes are all that's left of one of the those bank's original structure. Oh yes, I looked. The safes were empty.