Reed recalls son-in-law J. Wynn Fleener having just finished a remodeling of her kitchen Friday afternoon.“He really did a nice job,” Reed said Saturday from the shelter set up at Haviland High School. “At least I got to enjoy it for a few hours Friday afternoon. It would have been nice to have gotten to use it, though.”
Reed remembers going to the basement and taking shelter under a craft table while pulling a quilt over her head. She also remembers a twist she gave to a quick prayer uttered as the winds began to tear at the house above her.
“I said, ‘Lord, I don’t need you to hold me in the palm of your hands,’” Reed said. ‘I need you to turn those hands of yours over and cover me. And he did. It became just the most peaceful thing I’ve ever felt. I just knew that I was covered and I felt safe, even as I watched my house go right over the top of me and blow away to who knows where.”
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Wynn Fleener, Judy Reed’s son-in-law, runs the local funeral home with his wife, Amy. Other than some windows and a deck awning, Fleener’s home retained most of its hardware.
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His house, of course, was far from the only building in town with which Fleener was concerned. While it was hard to make a thorough assessment in the pitch black following the tornado’s jaunt through town, Fleener was heartened by the “east part of the building looking structurally sound.” The damage, however, is extensive enough to forego funeral arrangements for some time, a fact that seemed to gnaw at his wife.
“With the fatalities we’ve had from this, it’s just really eating at me that we can’t help their families,” Amy said. “That our job. That’s what we do. And now we can’t do it.”
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The residents don’t sound like they are whining, only their silly governor.
But they you can understand, sleeping with strangers in shelters and other places not knowing what is going on with their homes, they have the right to b#$%c all day long.