WEDNESDAY, JUNE 18, 2008
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Kristin Hoppa/KANSA A trash can hangs from a tree in the neighborhood of Miller Ranch Friday. Miller Ranch homes took extensive damage from the storm, causing many families to seek out other places to stay.
undetermined. Most of the ruined material included carpets, mattresses and bedding, but because of
the brick construction, the foundation of their house remained intact.
"Lots of other chapters and alumni are coming to help us out," Brunkow said.
The tight-knit fraternity was expecting fellow members from a Wichita chapter the next day to further help clean up their house.
Casper and fellow reporters told us of Miller Ranch, a residential neighborhood that had been hit hard.
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As we drove up the ridge that entered the neighborhood, we saw the same debris that was sprinkled throughout Manhattan. But a sharp turn down a hill opened us up to the devastation. At one time properties in this area topped $1 million, but now the houses were reduced to sheets of concrete. Red Cross tents
Aubree Casper, sophomore opinion editor at Kansas State's Collegian had been covering the story round the clock.
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littered the streets and families stood in a mess of their former homes.
It was clear that by the time
that by the time we had gotten there the shock was gone. Families sat in the frames of their houses at kitchen islands or other remaining parts, prepping themselves for another round
of clean-up. Spray painted "X"s adorned homes that were no longer habitable. Unfortunately the further we drove into the community the more "X"s we saw.
It was an unexplainable sight, one that no words will do justice. It was the sight of children carrying orange buckets, lending a hand in the clean-up process. It was a sight of realization that the homes where families were raised were now gone. It was a sight of a community banded together to rebuild.
— Edited by Matt Hirschfeld
Editors note: A special thanks to Aubrey Casper and the Kansas State Collegian staff for their assistance.
A sign lays on a sidewalk at the Kansas State University campus Friday. Debris from the tornado still covered campus two days after the tornado occured Kristin Hoppa/KANSA
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Grounds crew work to clear debris from the sidewalks of Kansas State University Friday. Classes were canceled at the university Thursday
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