People continue to clean up after powerful storms tore through the Ozarks last weekend.
“It just blew all the metal off of it and tore it down,” Homeowner Dewayne Baker said.
The entire back of his home is destroyed and the yard is littered with trees and debris. Plus, equipment and fences on his 400 acre farm will need a lot of work.
“We’ve lost approximately two miles of fence,” Baker said. “The work’s just started. I’ve had insurance adjusters here and I’ve had a contractor here.”
However, he and his family aren’t in it alone.
“There must have been twenty people here,” Bonnie Hunter, Baker’s neighbor, said.
Hunter is one of the neighbors who jumped in to help them out.
“Well, because they’re my neighbors,” Hunter said. “It’s a wonderful place. It’s a wonderful place to live.”
“We were really blessed,” Baker said.
Baker says they were out of town when the tornado hit, but that didn’t stop their neighbors from showing up right after the storm to move out their furniture and belongings.
“If it wasn’t for all the good neighbors that we had, why, we would have lost a lot of stuff,” Baker said.
Baker says the National Weather Service was at his home Thursday afternoon and they confirmed it was an E-F-1 tornado that caused the damage.
Baker is proof that even though we can’t control mother nature, we can can control our attitudes when the wind blows our way.
“There’s nothing you could do about it even if you knew it was coming,” Baker said. “Nobody was hurt. We didn’t lose everything. There’s people that have lost everything, you know?”
The same storm system also caused tornadoes not too far from Bakers home, near Phillipsburg and Lebanon. Those were also E-F-1 tornadoes that left behind damage to homes and businesses.
by KY3
June 1. 2017
