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[KS] Governor: War Slows Recovery Efforts
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| Last Edited | Chronicler May 08, 2007 05:59am |
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| News Date | Monday, May 7, 2007 11:00:00 AM UTC0:0 |
| Description | OVERLAND PARK, Kansas (Reuters) -- A shortage of trucks, helicopters and other equipment -- all sent to the war in Iraq -- has hampered recovery in a U.S. town obliterated by a tornado, Kansas Gov. Kathleen Sebelius said on Monday.
"There is no doubt at all that this will slow down and hamper the recovery," Sebelius, a Democrat, told Reuters in Kansas, where officials said the statewide death toll had risen to 12 on Monday.
"Not having this equipment in place all over the state is a huge handicap," Sebelius said.
The tornado that devastated Greensburg, 110 miles (175 kilometers) west of Wichita, started a weekend of violent weather in Kansas, a state in the heart of the central United States region known as "Tornado Alley."
Ten people died in Greensburg, a town of 1,600 people. An 11th person died in nearby Pratt County and a 12th in a separate tornado in Ottawa County.
The twisters were accompanied by widespread flooding on Sunday and Monday that required more than 200 water rescues and closed many roads and shuttered several schools in another part of the state. |
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