FIGHTING BACK

Greenboro, KS, 2007  A tornado wide enough to devastate and level 95% of the town.  The town didn't die but rather took an oath to repair and rebuild using architecture modeled with a green view.  One of the few structures that withstood the F5 winds was the grain elevator.

One of the two 12.5 (Peak) Megawatt (1 megawatt = 1 million watts) wind turbines that mark the green reconstruction.  One household, on the average, consumes approximately 800 watts a month....You do the math.

A close-up of the "nest" top of the turbine. Notice the small wind indicator on the top.  The wind turbine blades face away from the prevailing wind direction.

The old RV park razed by the twister now supports only a scrabble of weeds next to one of its long neglected sites. 

Walking out behind the park I was startled by this Prairie Kingsnake.  It was rattling its tail in the normal warning of a venomous snake.  Pure bluster and bluff, no poision in it's bite. Phew!

The morning sun rising through a sandy, mist-like ribbon, squalled-up by high winds.  Bare trees still give testament to the tornado of May 4th 2007.  Twelve deaths and thousands of lives ruined.  Greensboro's fight-back population as of 2010, 777.