12 days after tornado, victims rely on each other while help lags

12 days after tornado, victims rely on each other while help lags

ST. LOUIS – Nearly two weeks since a tornado ravaged parts of St. Louis and entire neighborhoods still look like disaster zones. The devastation is indescribable as an apocalyptic scene stretches across the Academy/Sherman Park neighborhood. It’s eerily quiet, with the occasional sound of a homeowner working alone to clean up, using a chainsaw to get through the brush block his front door. A block away, Fred Thomas sits on his front stoop. The r…