[meteorite-list] Greensburg, Kansas Update 05-07-07

[Platypus Girl]

Mark, those are fantastic pictures, and you did a great job of chronicling them for us.  I really felt like I was right there with Steve as he looked through the debris.  
   
  Thank you for sharing.
   
  Suzi
   
  
MARK BOSTICK <thebigcollector at msn.com> wrote:
  Hello everyone,

First, I would like to thank those that have contributed to the joint effort 
fund raiser currently undergoing. Many of my fellow dealers have yet to 
chime in, and while I understand the fund raiser is still in it's first 
footsteps, I hope we hear from you soon.

I am tired....it is past 3:30 a.m., and I have yet to take in everything 
from the last day, but as you know the saying "Time and tide waits on no 
man."

In case the hopefully linked photos do not seem work....due to length, you 
can check out the images in my photobucket gallery.

http://s148.photobucket.com/albums/s17/ksmeteoriteguy/



Today was the first day they let residents back into Greensburg since the 
tornado Friday. In many ways, this was day one of recovery.

Greensburg resident and world famous meteorite hunter, Steve "Brenham" 
Arnold arrived in town around 5 p.m., just a hour before the 6 p.m. curfew. 
This was only accomplished by making great time into Kansas from his home in 
Arkansas. Steve brought with him into Kiowa County, his youngest daughter 
Kelsey, and a certain person from Wichita, Kansas. (That would be me.)

After making our way through a couple road stops, as they were directing 
traffic completely around the town, we arrived at the real road stop, 
complete with a dozen armed National Guardsmen...and a couple attack 
helicopters peacefully setting in the background.

I was using Steve's camcorder on the scene while the only Guardsman talking 
wrote on our windshield the address we were going to, and the number of 
occupants in the yellow Hummer in some type of neon green marker. We were 
given directions to only go to the resident.



Steve's house was in the least hit part of town, which before we arrived was 
a relief to him. The thought of freely renting the place out to someone in 
need, disappeared when we arrived.



The previous days, rescue workers had sanctioned off the town, and marked 
the searched homes with paint.....Steve got this marking...



And a neat little orange paper...



The Living Room



The Kitchen



The Laundry Room



Master Bedroom. If someone would have been in this room they would have 
lived. Perhaps cut a little by flying glass, but alive.



The Kids Bedroom was in the best shape in the house, notice the air mattress 
still inflated.



Photos of Steve searching through the roof, ceiling and insultation mixture, 
not a 6-8" sludge over everything.













Neighbors of Steve







And around town photos. After curfew went into effect we left town, but not 
before a very quick drive around, as many of the other citizens were also 
doing at the time. The police, from all cities and counties in the lower 
portion of Kansas, didn't seem to mind and were quite understanding of the 
town's citizens needing to see for themselves.

To give a good ideal of the damage, the following photographs were taken 
with my camera, while I was using the camcorder....standing through the roof 
of Steve's hummer, while we quickly went around what use to be downtown 
Greensburg. Meaning, places were not cherry picked for damage, I didn't 
even use more then a half thought to choose a target and many times didn't 
even really aim at anything.....it was simply like this everywhere.











































A few scenes from Haviland







Clear Skies,
Mark Bostick
Wichita, Kansas


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