So what we're going to try to do is work together as a big team. We're a team of 40 to 50 people here. Whether you're eight years old or 82 years old, there's stuff for you to pick up. The bus travels south, stopping at the intersection of two gravel roads just north of the town of Hanska. The volunteers leave the bus and assemble at the edge of a field, each carrying a white plastic bucket.
Nearby tractors pulling hayracks wait to be loaded with debris gathered in the buckets.
One of the volunteers who starts across the field is Gary Neubauer of New Ulm. He drops all sorts of things into his bucket. Shingles, dry wall, sheet metal from Quonset buildings, all sorts of lumber. The origin for much of this debris is a farm a half mile away. The tornado struck the house with enough force to drive a piece of lumber through a second floor wall as neatly as a pin through paper.