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Return to Sender
Kathy Mulady | Equal Voice News
ARKANSAS – On a recent morning, a small crowd gathered in the freshly swept parking lot of the Lambrook, Ark., post office, a simple brick building with white trim. Word had spread quickly through the rural community of fewer than 100 residents that a meeting was being called that [...]
After Tornado, Feds Offer Relief but No Lasting Hope
Kathy Mulady | Equal Voice News
June 6, 2011
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Idell McShan sits outside her broken trailer home, her 3-year-old great-granddaughter playing at her feet. A slight breeze kicks up, rustling leaves and sending a scrap of paper scuttling across the ground. McShan glances toward the treetops – a hint of worry crosses her face, her body tenses. Her [...]
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Keith and Elaine Davis lived simply and quietly for years in the modest house Keith’s father built in the 1950s in a low-income neighborhood of Tuscaloosa that some just call “behind the water tower.” Their home, furniture, car and pickup were destroyed by the tornado that plowed through Alabama [...]
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Lack of communication technology and infrastructure slowed recovery assistance to Alabama’s most rural communities the first week after the April tornadoes. Many people didn’t hear that shelters were open, or about the need to register quickly for federal emergency aid. Few families have cellphones in the rural corners of [...]
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Rural Communities Overlooked in Tornado Aftermath
Kathy Mulady | Equal Voice News
May 13, 2011
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The tornado damage in Alabama is far more devastating than can be imagined by just seeing the images on TV and YouTube. In Tuscaloosa, full neighborhoods and communities have been obliterated as if a bomb was dropped. Two weeks after the tornado roared through the town of 90,000, bulldozers, [...]
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