That twister passed about 60 ft (according to the neighbor) over the top of my parents' house, they didn't have major damage, but were without power for a few days, no problem, I took them out my generator to power up the neccesseties, but we were all part of the recovery/clean-up effort. You bring up a perfect example of what I said about picking up by the bootstraps. Allthough there was a lot of talk about Federal funds, most went to the village for the fire/police/town hall, individual families got most of their help from insurance companies and friends&neighbors.

Troy

P.S. It was two years ago, and some of the rebuilding still isn't done, other areas are still counting in months and complaining about it taking too long... go figure <img src="/images/graemlins/blush.gif" alt="" />