Kokomo still cleaning up tornado damage

It’s been a week since two tornadoes tore through Kokomo, downing hundreds of trees and damaging more than 1,000 homes.  Kokomo Mayor Greg Goodnight says about 15 people are still being housed in the city’s emergency shelter and says dozens more are displaced elsewhere.

The city doesn’t yet have an estimate of how much cleanup will cost.  Goodnight says that’s in part because some damage is still being discovered.  The mayor says he met with one man who thought his property had only lost a few trees.

Goodnight estimates cleanup is, at best, half-done.  The mayor says he hopes the fact that no one was killed in the storm does not make it seem less severe in the eyes of state and federal assessors who will determine how much aid is available to make residents whole.

Photo: Damage from Kokomo tornados.  Photo by Annie Ropeik.