After going to Joplin yesterday and realizing they had a major tornado tear through their town a few years ago, we decided to watch Extreme Makeovers last night. 7 families, of the many whose houses were destroyed, got new homes by the ABC crew.
After walking next door to go to church and having some lunch, we headed back over to Joplin to view the houses and the neighborhood.
Here are the seven houses they built.
The crew also create a memorial inside the local park. This is the view south. The grassy knoll was where the hospital sat that was completely destroyed by the tornado.
This is the enlarged park that now exists after it was rebuilt. In the foreground is the memorial to the volunteers that Ty Pennington and the crew built. Gloves, hammer, and hard hat are embedded in the rocks.
The park is really beautiful. As we drove south and east (upper right corner of picture) through the area, there were mostly new homes rebuilt after the devastating tornado.
Afterwards we headed toward a large park where I was to get in 27 holes of disc golfing while Karen walked the park.
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