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LIVES REBUILT
In tornado aftermath, area residents move on
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Dan and Joyce Wapelhorst, rural Great Bend, are rebuilding the life that was swept away by a tornado May 17, 2017. A new modular home now stand where Dans family home once did. While much was lost, a community of friends and family, both known and unknown, have given the couple the encouragement they needed to get back up and start again. - photo by VERONICA COONS, Great Bend Tribune
Editor’s note: Six months after a narrow but powerful tornado cut through parts of southwestern Barton County, the path of destruction is still visible. While for the most part the debris has been hauled away, mangled trees mark the path. Homeowners that lost everything but their lives are in various stages of rebuilding.