HISTORIC TORNADO-RAVAGED KENTUCKY TOWN | PROGRESS & CLEAN-UP
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- Опубликовано: 20 сен 2024
- FEMA, STATE PARKS & 'REFUGEES' | HISTORIC F4 TORNADO TOWN UPDATE | KENTUCKY
The major F4 tornado (bordering on F5) that hit Dawson Springs, Kentucky the night of December 10, 2021 has left a pile of debris, some generous assistance and a dash of hope for the future as this town digs out from the devastation.
Come join us for this update, two months after the terrifying, terrible storm event. The process and time frame for removing the debris, fixing damaged houses and resettling people seems well ordered, and congregations continue to pick up the slack when social services and the 'Team Kentucky' fund don't seem to be present.
We talk about the plans for rebuilding, the chances of assistance and the things we didn't anticipate when this all started 8 weeks ago. We're looking at some surreal landscape, looking at places that are rebuilding and looking up in the end, where new residents seem willing to take a chance on the town.
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You and Xeno are a blessing to Dawson Springs. We are happy to have been able to help in a small way. The resilience of a small community is amazing.
It is good to behold
Thanks George for the update. It's still horribly shocking, but hopeful.
Thank you for updating us on your town's recovery
I will again in future
Heartbreaking for those people.
X's grandfather's house is adorable
Hi George! It does look better, but the impact of the tornado is still very evident...and I'm sure felt. It's great Xeno's granddad's house is getting repaired! It'll take a lot of perseverance, but it appears there are a lot of strong people there.
Well said! I think there are as well.
What a difference from the first videos! Those Kentuckians must be extremely tough folks! Thank you for doing up dates and for your generous donations. I think of those folks every time I watch your videos.
Thank you! I think they've proven both resilient and kind.
Wow,God bless that church for providing for their neighbors.
Thanks for the update. It's so easy to forget once the media has left. So glad you you're keeping us up on progress.
We are strong here in Our Old Kentucky Home!!!! And we help our neighbor... A few years back a good friend came in town for a visit and said.... Y'all have some of the Friendliest Folks here in Kentucky! Yes! We Do! And We CARE! About our fellow Man .... God shines down on Kentucky! We are very blessed here in Ky.
Amen
Here's to Dawson Springs and her proud people. Godspeed in your recovery and a wish for happiness and prosperity ahead.
From an outsider view its interesting to see the process of removing & fixing up property. I always wonder if I would want to stay after something like that I would think I would be to terrified but you heal over time I am sure. Thank you for showing us.
Hi George, thank you for the update on how your town is doing. It can take years, unfortunately, to get back to “normal” and for jobs to return. But so glad people are hopeful and rebuilding. Best wishes
Hi George, it’s nice to see progress and hope for the future . You can tell they are a community of strength. God bless you all!
Thanks for the update! You and your friends are very nice and generous! Good luck to all of you.
They’ve been really helpful, it’s really nice and thoughtful of them. How are you my friend?
I am so glad people are moving forward
Thanks, George, for the update. It's good to see that progress is being made although it's surely obvious that there's a long way to go. I hope those businesses come back to provide jobs for those who really want to be able to stay there.
I really hope pray that happens for them!!
How are you doing today Cathy?
Thank you George for this update.
Thank you for the update. Amazing how fast the debris has been cleared.
It sure is, hopefully the rest of the rebuild will move apace
wonderful update George
Thank you so much George for the update.
It’s so shocking to see the damage. Thank you for the update.
Thanks for the update. It's still chilling to look at it.
Agreed. When Joplin, Missouri, got hit years ago, I went with a church team to Joplin to pitch in cleaning up. I was not prepared for what we saw when we arrived. Your word "chilling" is the right one.
Thank You for all the information. I am sorry that this happened.❤❤❤❤
Thank you for documenting and sharing!
Thank you for the updates!❤🙏
More to come as we rebuild
Amazing progress! 👏
Thank you for the update! It's great that things are getting better.
Yes they are, the pace of things is to be seen
Thank you for giving us an update!
Thanks so much for the update. I was hoping you would film this for us. You are such a nice, honest person.
Thank you for the update to this tragedy. I haven't seen any national news about the rebuilding/recovery and I have wondered how things were going. It's good to see that there is hope.
I’m so glad Xenos grandfather (Ben?) groovy fireplace survived and went to a home to still be enjoyed. Love that MCM bank roofline! This video makes me wonder what kind of disaster would likely strike in our SD county? Earthquake? 😵💫Great video George! Thank you for sharing!
The MCM bank is my favorite building in town! I hope you never have an EQ, I lived there through the 1971 L.A. quake and it shook SD but not badly
Blessings 🙏
Thank you for showing progress...if only we could heal and cities could do same cut into smaller blocks of same amt..and somehow use Dawson Springs ans a template....wonderful that you have found several places who really do it and thanks for filming.
Thanks for the update!
Thanks for the update ! It is good to see progress is being made,be it slowly. I agree. Safe is stuff. Things are things.People are what is important. Am keeping the people of this disaster in my thoughts and prayers.We all need each other.We were never meant to navigate this life alone. Safe travels my friend. Hope to see you soon.All the best to Xeno and his family 😎🦩🌴🌞
All that is so true! I'm glad you also have people helping you navigate
Thanks for the update my good sir.
I grew up on Oak Heights. It is so sad to travel the streets now.
It is so strange. I look forward to spring and more recovery for everyone
Hi George. First of all I would like to say my husband and I love to watch your videos. You have so much knowledge stored in your head it is remarkable. Any way could you please tell me how to get money to you for the tornado victims. In WV we had a devastating flood a few years back and a lot of money was misused and disappeared...aka stolen. I trust you to get it to the right people. Hope to met you one day.
Thank you so much for your generous offer! If you want to send to me via PayPal and designate that it’s for Tornado Relief I’ll donate it to the appropriate place
thanks for the tour
Thank you for the update. I can’t find anything on the news. Prayers for you all, and bless you for the help you have been.
My prayers for them everyday. How are you Debi friend?
Thanks for the update, George. I've been wondering how folks are doing there.
Gosh. It looks better but yet it has far to go.
Such a sad thing.
Love watching you I know how these people feel lost my home in 2007 to a tornado.
That is so rough! I'm glad you're long removed from that. Did you return, or move elsewhere?
@@TheAntiqueNomad rebuild then moved
They are saying you guys are getting hit again this year. Be safe. It's going to be a regular thing.
Hello George. I have been horrified by what occurred to your town and too many others. I am slowly watching as it’s not easy. I just read your banner where you stated “FEMA Is threatening to put in more trailers”. This sounds so extremely privileged! I went to Hot Springs, AK after Hurricane Katrina (the government sent thousands to summer camps, then motels there). Pulled my retirement savings out and plunged in for 6 weeks. I was able to assist in so many ways as a paraprofessional Social Worker (just graduated and was in the midst of transferring to UCD, then on to USC). Housing, whether pretty or long lasting is critical. I’d appreciate a explanation of why you said that. TY.
Hi there! I do not know why I only am seeing this comment now, but it's a good one and deserves a response.
What I said does sound privileged, I did not clarify that well. You sound like you have experience and education that will help this make sense when I explain...I know how grateful people here were for people like you who came to help us!
I don't want to besmirch FEMA, I know the great need for assistance of all kinds, having gone through this experience. The trailers are often badly needed in places where housing stock is short in supply. We just weren't that place because of circumstances unique to the area, and it was frustrating to have trailers thrust upon us when the best help would've been to use the same resources for relocation, or repair of damaged houses where people couldn't afford full coverage insurance.
Our town already had a lot of substandard housing, half of which was destroyed in the tornado. Our town--and all the towns except the county seat, 20 miles away--have lost their economies and been shrinking in population for the past 30 years, so vacancies abound.
Because housing is cheaper here than almost anywhere else in the nation, only about 75 people needed temporary shelter, even though hundreds were displaced in our town alone. I realize this is not often the case when disaster strikes, which is when FEMA trailers make more sense; but here, the older housing that is in disrepair could be restored for less money than the cost of a FEMA trailer, and with the Amish builders in the area, could have been renovated quickly if grant money had been readily available. (The Amish rebuilt a 1000-square foot house into a food bank in the space of a week!)
But instead of relocation assistance or grants for repairs, FEMA wanted to put in trailers, or make destitute people apply for loans with long wait times if they wanted to restore instead. A few dozen FEMA trailers were moved into the nearby state resort park on a temporary basis; but FEMA also shocked everyone by placing 5 windowless shipping container 'trailers' in a row on the most sterile gravel/asphalt lot at the main intersection in the middle of our town, with zero space between them. (They also did it at night, when there was no one there to see, and it was weeks after the tornado.)
That's really what triggered my comment, it seemed as if FEMA wanted to lock poor folks into staying in a place where they had no resources and no reason to remain. Our town has a few churches that try to help the poor, but all the government agencies set up to help them are in the county seat, far away and with no transit links for poor residents in Dawson Springs to access them. Even before the tornado, it was clear that many of the people in town would be better served if they moved elsewhere, but stayed in ramshackle houses because they couldn't get assistance to move.
So putting in trailers just seemed like forestalling the inevitable, which is that our poor little town needed to contract in size and fix what was already there, and the poor folks who were displaced needed to go where they could get long-term help.
I understand that our situation is not the norm for such events, and I would gladly take any housing and give humble thanks if I were displaced. It was just frustrating to see a top-down, one-size-fits-all solution being imposed that didn't seem to ask locals any questions, or take into account our actual needs.
A social worker in our town who worked for FEMA during Superstorm Sandy described abandoned FEMA trailers becoming the new ghettos when she returned for a follow-up visit 2 years after the storm, which had us worried about their ultimate fate here. Fortunately, the occupants in our FEMA trailers quickly found other housing, and the trailers were not left behind to become slumlord housing.
@@TheAntiqueNomad thank you for expanding on this. FEMA did several similar things during the displaced population after Katrina. It is a wash your hands government approach. There’s never any true assistance offered to our poorest and most in need. Many were grateful for the trailers but, there were greater demands that were only met by people like myself creating programs through the Charity Houses and Churches. An excellent example would be that people would finally get housing through FEMA but then they had to wait for furniture and cookware for several months. Obviously that was ludicrous.
I approached the charity house in Hot Springs Arkansas, and started a whole program of donating cookware and furniture and sheets and blankets and within a couple weeks people had what they needed, so I understand thank you for your very thoughtful reply.
I do realize that you just triggered something in me and it was a frantic time and upsetting Time and there were a lot of just kind of soundbites in trying to make a quick video to show people what was going on. My apologies if I upset you. The whole thing always upset me so there we are
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FEMA refused to cover our clean up costs.
Please tell us the name of the church in Dawson Springs that has the free store? Some of us might like to make a direct contribution.
Wasteland but people doing a great job. Sad
He dont tell u that they changed the laws in dawson now if u did own property u can build back if u had a small property u have to b so far from road u have to b so far from property line . Regardless if u have a foundation or not . There a lot of bs that noone is telling bout dawson
That’s interesting to know! I hadn’t heard that
Why don't u tell why they r not rebuildING.
I thought I did! They haven’t gotten their insurance settlements and some were underinsured
Has nothin to do with ins this was told to me by a homeownerand was also told no double wide also
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