Slow recovery: Where do things stand one month after tornado?
But the holes torn in her life 30 days ago are still there -- the breach in the house she had rented, the gap in her finances and the chasm between how she would have guessed these weeks would go and the realities.
It's been one month since
There are now some new dollar figures to help provide context to the destruction in
He said that the
Last week
Three schools significantly damaged by the tornado were back in classes a week after the storm hit, although in new locations for the rest of the school year, doubled up with other schools that had space available. School leaders expect insurance to pay for the damages, but the schools haven't announced yet whether they'll be back at the old buildings when school starts again in August.
There's a lot still up in the air for families like Gill's too. The big oak that crashed through their place during the tornado made their old home unlivable, so for now Gill and her husband are staying in a mini-apartment-type-space at the
Gill said she hasn't had any help paying to secure new permanent housing. That's coming out of pocket. She paid for the new clothes she needed for her job herself, too.
In the early days following the tornado, she said, she went online, looked in the news and talked to people she knew, looking for what to do get help. It was disappointing, she said, how much easier it felt to find announcements about where to give donations than about where to get the aid.
Eventually, she did get connected the coalition of local government and nonprofit agencies doing tornado relief, but a lot of the help they were offering was mismatched to the particulars of her situation. Some things will be more helpful down the road, such as the furniture voucher she got. She took another voucher to shop at the
Gill has said she's grateful to be alive and privileged to have a job and a car and no young children to care for during all of this. She's more worried about others in her community: If it's been this hard for her, she's wondering how people with less resources will be able to put a new life together.
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