More Tour O Town

We kept driving around town, and it was my first chance to see "FEMA-ville." It is much smaller now than it first was. Jeff said in the beginning, there were about 300 trailers, and each time someone moves out (either moves away or moves into a new home) they remove the trailer. There were several empty spaces throughout the area.

Interesting thing I'd not thought about with this FEMA thing. This had been an empty field, and before they could move in anything or anyone, they had to put in roads and driveways and run electricity and plumbing and phone lines and ALL of that for all 300-some trailers. I guess I never thought about how much pre-work had to go into it.

And since this IS tornado alley, they also had to create some sort of storm shelter for all the people living in the trailers. This was the solution: buried box cars. There were several of these scattered throughout FEMA-ville.

This is the picture of what the high school will look like when it is actually built and isn't housed in portables anymore.


Our tour concluded with a visit to the Care n Share store. It's kind of like a very small Goodwill and is run by the Ministerial Association. It was their grand opening day, so they had cookies and everything! :) I found this tie that I TRIED to talk Dad into buying...he wasn't having any of it. He did, however, stand very patiently for this photo. (It's a Kansas City Chiefs tie if you can't see it very well.) He's such a good lil sport, that Dad.