Greensburg on display at Chicago museum
October 3, 2008 by Healthy Shana
The Field Museum of Chicago recently opened an exhibit this past spring called “Nature Unleashed: Inside Natural Disasters.” It explains how the tornado in Greensburg happened and offers ideas for protecting yourself in such an event.
Twelve persons died in or near Greensburg, and 95 percent of the town’s structures were destroyed by the May 4, 2007, storm, whose winds reached 200 mph.
The exhibit, which runs through Jan. 4, 2009, includes large photos showing the aftermath of the tornado and artifacts from the south-central Kansas town that bear witness to the force of the EF-5 tornado:
•A stop sign, bent around a sign post.
•A tree stump stripped of its bark.
•A piece of bent metal embedded in a block of wood.
Besides the section on tornadoes, the exhibit also explores hurricanes, earthquakes and volcanoes.
