'I haven’t been able to find one word to describe everything.”
Shawn Triplett posted this photo to Reddit, where it's received more than 157,000 upvotes.
He first went to a volunteer center, where he met Liam Kennedy, a photojournalist from Bloomberg. Triplett offered to escort him around town so he could take photos. That’s when the two discovered the destroyed theater. . The photos show the empty theater, the town from eight stories high, crushed mail trucks, and the sun setting over piles of debris. As of Friday, the post has more than 157,000 upvotes.“I just stood there, staring off and just letting all the emotions, you know, they all hit you at once," Triplett said."I haven’t been able to find one word to describe everything.”
Triplett is happy for publications to use his photos because he wants to draw more attention to the toy drive he is putting on for the kids who lost everything in the tornado right before Christmas. While he was in a church’s gym that was serving as a shelter, he walked around and overheard a son crying to his mother about losing his Christmas.“It just broke me in half,” Triplett said. “I lost it. I don’t know all the variables of their story. They’re at a shelter.
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