After the Tornado | A Follow up Story to Empowering Art
Clip: Season 10 Episode 4 | 1m 34sVideo has Closed Captions
We revisit with the owner of Obsessions Gifts after a tornado hit the Railroad Square Art District.
Betty Proctor, the owner of Obsessions Gifts, tells us what it was like in the days, weeks, and months after a tornado hit the Railroad Square Art District where her business resides. In addition to owning Obsessions Gifts with her daughter, she also runs a nonprofit called MPAC: Motivating People through Arts and Crafts.
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After the Tornado | A Follow up Story to Empowering Art
Clip: Season 10 Episode 4 | 1m 34sVideo has Closed Captions
Betty Proctor, the owner of Obsessions Gifts, tells us what it was like in the days, weeks, and months after a tornado hit the Railroad Square Art District where her business resides. In addition to owning Obsessions Gifts with her daughter, she also runs a nonprofit called MPAC: Motivating People through Arts and Crafts.
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Learn Moreabout PBS online sponsorshipI came back like the day after the tornado, and it was surreal.
I mean, things were blown different places.
I still remember up to the ten was wrapped around the tree limbs.
It was just amazing.
And the wires and, you know, were everywhere.
there was awning and ten from other places that were, right in front of the door.
Yeah.
Yeah.
That tornado was it.
It was very surprising.
Yeah, to say the least.
And we had our roof come up a little bit that side of the roof, and we had, debris and also some rain come and it did damage some of our products, but we're we were okay.
But yeah, we were able to clean up when we were able to come back in.
it could have been worse.
That's where we always look at.
It could have been worse.
Yeah.
With the tornado there has been a group that, that collected donations.
They did a lot, for Railroad Square.
And, and they were able to collect donations.
And then we were able to get donations to help pay rent, and also other expenses.
So without them, it was it would have been really, really hard.
And Railroad Square was really great because they help they what they did was they told us what was going on.
And so that was really cool.
Every step of the way they were able to let us know, okay, we're you're going to have this or this is happening.
So that was really, really good of them.
There is still plenty of fallout from the storm.
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