‘This is our backyard’: Home Depot helps tornado cleanup effort [Video]

Volunteers in neon shirts continue visiting neighborhoods, cleaning up from Friday’s tornado outbreak.About 50 local Home Depot employees chipped in Wednesday on the weeks-long effort in the Ramblewood neighborhood. A spokesperson says more volunteers will help in Blair this week.”This is our backyard,” Home Depot store manager Will Davis said. “We’ve had our own associates affected by this.”Team Depot, Home Depot’s associate volunteer force, has come from across the state to help hundreds of volunteers with Omaha Rapid Response and Relevant Community Church. “This is going to be a very long process that the community is going to have to keep coming together for a long period of time,” store manager Lindsey Partusch said.More than $20,000 in supplies like gloves, tarps, and tote bags have been donated to local first responders and churches.’It’s a miracle’: Wife, son lay over quadriplegic man in upstairs bedroom as tornado strikes Elkhorn home. See …