MOORE, Okla. (BP) -- Gary Hunley had seen it all before. As he surveyed
the damage left behind from last Monday's EF5 tornado in Moore, Okla.,
he saw an all-too-familiar scene of overturned cars, metal signposts
bent to the ground and houses reduced to rubble.
Almost two
years to the day before the historic Moore tornado, Hunley's home was
destroyed by an equally historic tornado in Joplin, Mo., which killed
158 people. Since then Hunley, the leader on his Spring River Baptist
Association Disaster Relief team, has participated in numerous Southern
Baptist Disaster Relief responses. Yet because of the amount of damage
in Moore, the latest assignment has brought back a variety of memories.
"I
understand it," Hunley said. "I saw it yesterday for the first time. It
was like Joplin -- the scene, the smell, the look on people's faces.
Some are trying to be uplifting and act like everything is okay. They're
hiding it though; I can see it on their face. I feel so sorry for
them."
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