Read more Greensburg stories on Newserhttp://www.newser.com/taggrid/5109/greensburg.htmlhttp://img1-cdn.newser.com/images/newser-black250x40.gifhttp://www.newser.com/2012 - Newseren-usNewser Feed GeneratorSat, 26 May 2012 08:30:18 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/2044/strapped-national-guard-hampers-tornado-cleanup.htmlSam Gale Rosen<img src='http://img2-cdn.newser.com/getimage.aspx?mediaid=4069&width=45&height=45&crop=Y&updateddate=20110401035154' border='0' />The National Guard was slow to respond to the Kansas tornado because much of its equipment is in Iraq and Afghanistan, the Times reports, and sniping between the state and federal governments echoes the Hurricane Katrina fallout. The Kansas Guard has only about half the vehicles and heavy machinery it...Army Spc. Chris Daugherty of the Kansas National Guard carries a flag from a tornado-damaged building in Greensburg, Kan., Tuesday, May 8, 2007. The 1.7-mile-wide Category F-5 enhanced tornado, with wind estimated at 205 mph, destroyed about 95 percent of this farming town on Friday. (AP Photo/Orlin Wagner)http://www.newser.com/story/2044/strapped-national-guard-hampers-tornado-cleanup.htmlWed, 09 May 2007 09:09:38 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/1955/twister-levels-kansas-town-leaving-9-dead.htmlGreg Atwan<img src='http://img2-cdn.newser.com/getimage.aspx?mediaid=3837&width=45&height=45&crop=Y&updateddate=20110401035218' border='0' />A wedge tornado more than a mile wide carried off the city of Greensburg, Kansas, yesterday, destroying virtually the entire town and killing at least nine residents. Some Kansans are calling it one of the worst twisters in more than a decade. "I can't believe the destruction I'm seeing," a...http://www.newser.com/story/1955/twister-levels-kansas-town-leaving-9-dead.htmlSun, 06 May 2007 17:06:36 CDT