Some impressive pictures.
Down here in the Joplin area, the clean up is in full swing. THe Walgreen's drug store that was destroyed had the exterior finished a couple of weeks ago and they are working on the interior. THe Chik-fil-A that was destroyed is nearly done the exterior building (can't tell you how glad I am that Chik-Fil-A isn't open on Sundays. It's the busiest fast food restaurant for families in town). They have started in on the next door IHOP I believe. The Home Depot and Walmart super center have also started rebuilding.
Residential areas are getting cleaned out to the point that you can tell which people opted to pay the couple thousand dollars for the government to remove all the debris and those that for some reason decided not to go that route. A couple of sections of town have been given the go ahead to get building permits and start rebuilding.
THey are going to re-build the hospital that was hit but it has not been demolished yet. THey expect it will take 3 years to get it back up and running once they start work. During that time they are paying all staff full salaries even if they don't have a temporary place to put a department (tells you how expensive it must be to start staffing from the ground up for such a facility).
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