West Virginia Tornado

Lexy and I were in Lincoln and Wayne Counties the other day for a meeting and made a quick trip over to see the tornado damage in Cove Gap.  Wow.  What a great experience for her to see the damage.  She took most of these pictures.  I have put them in small because I had a hard time weeding out ones that I didn't want to post, please click on them and look at the damage zoomed in.  It looked like Paul Bunion was pissed of and just swinging an ax as he came through.  Trees were snapped off 5 to 10 feet above the ground.  Utility poles were snapped off, wires were laying on the ground.  Roofs ripped off of houses, travel trailers laid in piles of rubble.  It was quite interesting to see.

On of my project in the area had a point of interest at this house.

Lexy had me stop so she could take a picture of these mail boxes.

This one gets it's own caption.  If you look to the far left of the photo you can see a black spot.  That is an office chair with a man sitting in it, On the porch steps it his wife.  Scattered around the porch are the intact items that they have gathered and moved out of the house.  Over the top of the house is a blue FEMA tarp to try and keep what rain they can out of the remaining house.  Scattered up the hill behind the house is the insulation from the attic.  If you look at the from corner nearest the road you can see the roof drain down spout, it's broke off where the elbow would have been attached to meet up with the eves of the house.

 Sad stuff for an already very depressed and impoverished area.