http://newswire.uark.edu/article.aspx?id=16248"They were the lucky ones. Six blocks later, at 26th and Kentucky, the landscape looked like Bonn or Dresden after Allied bombings. I had no idea where I was. And I grew up here."
"For a while, people on the outside knew more than people close to the damage and destruction, because power and cable television were out. My friend in Kansas City had more information about the extent and magnitude of the storm than his mother had, and she lives only six miles from the nearly mile-wide path of flattened buildings and twisted aluminum siding wrapped around toothpick sycamores."
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