Donations from charities, celebrities, and countries as far away as, and as surprising as, the United Arab Emirates flow in. Insurance agencies proactively file claims for their clients who may be too shell-shocked or depressed to meet deadlines. Church groups anonymously show up to help clean neighborhoods, asking nothing in return and refrain from proselytizing.
National retailers set up temporary stores and assign some employees to help with cleaning up neighborhoods local businesses keep their employees on their payrolls, despite lacking inventory or even a location. Missouri state and federal programs contribute funds and facilitate applications for programs like SBA loans. Assimilating all the details of how this is accomplished, one begins to realize this disaster could easily be called the "Anti-Katrina". Before the rain has stopped falling, the citizens of Joplin begin to come together to account for their neighbors and rebuild their town. Fortunately, director Gubera uses footage from weather satellite photos, security cameras, and police vehicle audio and video recordings to convey the immense power of the storm and the apocalyptic destruction it wrought. Narrator George Noory's jovial voice and the monotone recollections of survivors belie the overwhelming scope of the devastation. As local meteorologist Jeremiah Cook explained, this meant that the half mile wide tornado had several "fingers," each an individual tornado, and the rains were so heavy one could not see them before they struck. In fact, it was not a single tornado, but a multi-vortex tornado created by two converging storms. On the deadliest tornado ever recorded struck Joplin, an F5 in which wind gusts exceeded 200 mph. Joplin native Chip Gubera's documentary JOPLIN MISSOURI: A TORNADO STORY is a comprehensive, informative account of the devastation wrought on his hometown by a natural disaster and its subsequent recovery.
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