Hillsdale, Kansas Storms: Unity in Disaster

0:00Storms ripped through Hillsdale, Kansas this week, starting with a likely EF2 tornado on Monday, April 13th, that tore near Hillsdale Lake, followed by a brutal Hills storm on Wednesday that pockmarked roofs and cars across Miami County. Seven-year-old Eloise Gough was mid-dance class when sirens blared, so she grabbed her cousin's hand, prayed that Swista would miss their studio, and it beared off just in time, sparing the building major harm. Her family got hit anyway, with busted living room windows, glass everywhere, and a beaten up air conditioner, but they dodged the worst while. Neighbors scrambled from hail the size of golf balls. Now nearly three dozen nonprofits, from food banks to mental health groups and animal shelters, linked up at a Miami County Community Foundation, meeting to pool resources and aid storm victims, even as their own greenhouses and properties took damage. Some stepping up, like local builder Jared Clemen, boarding windows for free, proving this tight-knit spot turns disaster into unity.

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