At a tornado response meeting in July for St. Louis Wards 13 and 14, Gwen Hudgins directly asked St. Louis Mayor Cara Spencer to drop a dumpster off on her block in the Ville neighborhood to collect the lingering debris from the May tornado.

She told Spencer at the town hall that many homes near the 3000 block of North Newstead are flattened and that piles of rubble are scattered across yards. Spencer told her that she would work on figuring out how to get a dumpster to her block.

To this day, Hudgins has not seen a dumpster from the city in her neighborhood, nor has the debris from her tornado-destroyed home been removed from her front lawn by the city. The only help she has received so far has been from Grassroots Redeeming Love , a community nonprofit working to assist tornado sur

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