Jenny over at Alphabe Thursday is featuring the letter "W" this week. Have to admit that was a no brainer for me. Seems that everywhere I have traveled over the last year or so I have encountered a lot of the same stuff. And, that stuff is "Wreckage."
I have photographed people's homes were their property looked like a junk yard. I have shot photos of stipped cars abandoned on city highways and neighborhood streets. I have other photos of the wrecking ball taking down buildings and bulldozers digging up the pavement for highway expansion. But, in the last year I have happened to be in three cities where mother nature has wrecked extreme havoc and those are the shots I would like to share today.
Since Joplin, Missouri has been so much in the news I will skip the photos I took there and instead share a few of the shots I took of tornado damage in Alabama and Georgia in 2011 and a few taken last month in Branson, Missouri.
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| Branson, Mo. March 2012 |
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| Branson, Missouri March 2012 |
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| Branson, Mo. March, 2012 |
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| Branson, Mo. March, 2012 |
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| Branson, Mo. March 2012 |
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| Manchester, Georgia May, 2011 |
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| Mancester, Georgia May, 2011 |
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| Manchester Georgia May, 2011 |
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| Northern Alabama May, 2011 |
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| Northern Alabama May, 2011 |
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When we lived in the southeast, I was always terrified of tornadoes. One year, in Memphis, a tornado came through one night and completely destroyed a VERY upscale neighborhood. Some of the important papers from one house were found 10 miles away.
ReplyDeleteThe strength of tornadoes in mind blowing. so capricious, too.
ReplyDeleteThere was a tornado not far from my house in 1999.
My heart goes out to those families...
ReplyDeleteNature can be a wild and destructive force. Your photos bring home the story of lives torn apart :(
ReplyDeleteA very powerful W post today! Yes, I have seen the wreckage left by mother nature first hand myself when Hurricane Hugo blew through my town, Charleston, almost 23 years ago. Have a great weekend, Nan
ReplyDeleteI love Branson, so it is sad to see it torn apart like this. It takes a lot of courage to rebuild.
ReplyDeleteTornadoes really wreck people's lives. I'm thankful we have never had to endure such sorrows or loss. Good 'W' post!
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Oh wow. I can hardly believe it still looks like this.
ReplyDeleteI am ashamed to say that once I read about it and donate I assume things are all better. Obviously, they are not.
Such a wonderful reminder for us to count our blessings...and to help when we can.
Thank you for sharing this.
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I was privileged to work with a disaster relief team a couple of times last year. This year the disaster was ME! Hopefully my shoulder will be recovered enough that I can do some disaster relief work again. It is so rewarding to be able to help those that are in such dire circumstances.
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