Newstead

Jul 22

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Any day of the week you’ll find residents continuing the cleanup and recovery effort by hand, amongst themselves and with a now thinned volunteer force. I’m among those that flagged off and the burnout is real. But also to be clear, if you go out you do still see volunteers and neighbors helping each other. I recently photographed Newstead and its side streets.

These are just maybe a dozen or so homes of thousands, on just a handful of streets out of hundreds.

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Garfield Lacy. He was trapped under the rubble of his 3400sf brick home for five hours, shown in the image above and also below. He was found by cadaver dogs.

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A bare foundation a few houses north of Garfield’s.

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Childhood home of Terry Moore (above). She lives just across the street now, but grew up in this home with twenty siblings. One of her sisters was born in the morning of the ‘56 St. Louis tornado, and died on the morning of this one. She told me that she was lifted out of her doorway but then thrown and pinned to the ground in her front yard, and that the only word to describe what it looked like was a “monster.” That it seemed to choose homes and that when it did it devoured them.

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