The month of May brought a stomach-turning moment to the residents of Greensburg, a rural Kansas community that was 95% obliterated by a tornado on May 4, 2007. On May 18, a storm bearing a vivid tornadic signature on radar seemed to be aimed at the town, prompting the second time in Greensburg’s history that a tornado emergency was declared. The one other time was 18 years earlier. But what Greensburg accomplished after a 1.7-mile-wide EF-5 tornado ripped through the town, killing 12 people and flattening public buildings, businesses and private homes, is a testament to what can happen — and will become necessary — as temperatures rise and weather patterns shift.
Source: KLC Journal
