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A year later, Bunny Giles' face still bears a bruise. It's small but stubborn, on her right cheek. She tries to cover it with makeup. But every day, she says, the bruise shows up, a reminder.
The tornado-ravaged community of Greensburg is in the spotlight again -- this time for a cleanup effort that volunteers organized last fall.
The Greensburg tornado may prove to be a defining moment for understanding how large tornadoes develop, officials said. A portable Doppler radar used by the University of Oklahoma near Protection in Comanche County captured high-resolution imagery and data of the 1 ¾-mile wide tornado as it formed, strengthened and bore down on Greensburg in May.
As meteorologists assessed what was left of Greensburg after a tornado decimated the Kiowa County town in May, they were reminded of another moment in history 52 years earlier. Udall.
As another tornado season looms, local and state officials are working to implement lessons they've learned from the Greensburg tornado. Some of those lessons are time-honored truths reaffirmed, such as the need for people to respond quickly to threats.
Emergency workers arriving in Greensburg the night a massive tornado struck the Kiowa County town weren't prepared for what they found.
A group of graduate architecture students at the University of Kansas is building what Greensburg leaders hope will be an example of "green" design and construction.
A nonprofit group charged with leading tornado-damaged Greensburg's environment-friendly initiatives has announced plans for a dozen "green" demonstration homes.
5 p.m., Friday HAVILAND -- On top of everything else they have to worry about, Greensburg residents now also have to worry about mosquitoes.
At the shelter at Barclay College in Haviland, 12 miles east of Greensburg, Red Cross workers Saraphena Tannahill of Derby and Donna Ward of Coldwater said they desperately need phone service or some way to communicate with other shelters.
Rescue operations in Greensburg were suspended at 8 tonight as a curfew goes into effect in the town where eight of the nine Kansans died in a Friday night tornado.
As the faint sun rose this morning, bit by bit it revealed the enormity of the tornado damage in Greensburg. Near what had been a convenience store, on U.S. 54, a moving van lay on its side spilling out a household of possessions -- a dining room set and golf clubs lay in a heap.
