The Greensburg tornado struck on May 4, 2007, in Kiowa County, Kansas, heavily damaging the town of Greensburg. It tracked 28.8 miles (46.3 km) through the area, killing 12 people and injuring 63. The tornado was the first to be rated EF5 on the Enhanced Fujita scale. The tornado heavily damaged Greensburg; 662 structures in the town sustained some form of damage and 95 percent of the town was damaged or destroyed. It dissipated northwest of Greensburg after being on the ground for just over an hour. The tornado left monetary losses of $250 million (2007 USD) in its wake. Kiowa County was declared a federal disaster area in the immediate aftermath. Rebuilding efforts were intensive, and several major federal government agencies collaborated with state agencies to help restore the town with the goal of making it a "green town" using a long-term community recovery plan. (This article is part of a featured topic: Tornado outbreak of May 4–6, 2007.).
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_______________________________ Today's selected anniversaries:
1931:
Isaac Isaacs became the first Australian-born governor-general of Australia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isaac_Isaacs
1968:
Vietnam War: The People's Army of Vietnam attacked Khe Sanh Combat Base, a U.S. Marines outpost in Quảng Trị province, South Vietnam, starting the Battle of Khe Sanh. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Khe_Sanh
1976:
The Concorde, an Anglo-French supersonic airliner, began scheduled commercial flights to London, Paris, Bahrain, and Rio de Janeiro. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Concorde
2011:
Demonstrations against alleged corruption in the Albanian government led to the killings of four protesters in Tirana by the Republican Guard. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2011_Albanian_opposition_demonstrations
_____________________________ Wiktionary's word of the day:
among: 1. Of a person or thing: in the midst of and surrounded by (other people or things). 2. Associated with or living alongside (other people or things). 3. Belonging to (a group comprising similar people or things). 4. Distinct in some way from (other members of a group); specifically, superior or pre-eminent compared to (other members of a group). 5. Of an event or a fact. 6. Originally, in the course of; during; now, in the circumstances or context of. 7. Distributed or divided between (members of a group). 8. Done jointly by (two or more people). 9. In the general custom or opinion of (members of a group). 10. Occurring between (members of a group) or within (a group). [...] 11. About Word of the Day 12. Nominate a word 13. Leave feedback https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/among
___________________________ Wikiquote quote of the day:
It is altogether reasonable to conclude that the heavenly bodies, alias worlds, which move or are situate within the circle of our knowledge, as well all others throughout immensity, are each and every one of them possessed or inhabited by some intelligent agents or other, however different their sensations or manners of receiving or communicating their ideas may be from ours, or however different from each other. --Ethan Allen https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Ethan_Allen