| Two days after the May 22 EF5 tornado in Joplin, several of us met at a widow's house on 15th Street. The roof was missing, but almost everything remained inside. It was a shame to see most of the items had been water damaged. We filled a moving truck and some pickups with items and drove the to an empty warehouse 45 minutes away for storage. While we were there, a group of FFA students from nearby Diamond came around with work gloves and water. The scene is depicted in Out of the Wind, told through young Hailey Kelly's point of view. At the same time, Hailey knows something her dad and another of the church deacons doesn't. She knows that high school girl, Carly Simmons, has run away to try to find her boyfriend Boyd. |
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