J Pat Carter__Life is Beautiful
Oklahoma City Documentary Photographer
The First Americans Dia de los Muertos Imagine sessions Oklahoma's vanishing animals - renaissance Birding - small images of beauty Animals - life in the wild
The May 3rd tornado became an F5 tornado with 318 mph wind speeds. More than 66 tornadoes hit Oklahoma. Forty eight people were killed in the storms. The storm caused $1.1 billion in damage. More than 8,000 homes were damaged or destroyed. Homes were flattened, roofs chewed off. Almost everything was lost. Neighbors helped collect 50 years of belongings. "I am still amazed we were not hurt worse. It was a blessing". Trying to make it home during a hurricane, Florida Keys. Flooding, Fort Lauderdale, Fl. Drought exposes shore line, leaving the docks high & dry. Receding shore line during a drought. Dying corn fields in western Oklahoma . Baltimore row house fire, two children lost Baltimore row house fire, two children lost Crying for a fallen Haitian leader. "We were soldiers once......we were not just another war story. We went to war because our country asked us to go, because the president ordered us to go but more importantly, we saw it as our duty to go" "We were the children of the 1950s. We were draftees, proud of the opportunity to serve the country like fathers did". Most never forget the day, they received the news. For others, healing is a process rather than an endpoint. And for some there is no healing.
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