It pays to have salt-of-the-earth neighbors. From Amish neighbors take just one day to rebuild home destroyed by twister:
But in less than 15 hours, the Grabers were back in a new home rebuilt on the same spot — a peaceful valley south of Missouri 38 about 10 miles east of Marshfield — by more than 100 men and boys from neighboring Amish homesteads near the Grabers.‘By 2 p.m., we were mopping the floors,’ he said.
Debris from the destroyed house was spread for hundreds of yards. Some still hangs in the nearby groves of trees. Fences were torn down. Wash lines snapped. Two other buildings and an outhouse were wiped away.
All were rebuilt in about a morning.
It is a remarkable testimony to the Amish spirit and credo that neighbors help neighbors in times of need.
‘I figured there would be help, but I had picking up the mess more in mind,’ Graber said.
His brother, Ernest, who lives nearby, said the entourage of workers ‘looked like a bunch of ants’ when it came to rebuilding the 36-by-64 structure that was a combination living quarters and workshop.