Valley View community still recovering two months after deadly EF-3 tornado [Video]

Community members gathered in Denton on Saturday to help support victims affected by the tornado outbreak that flattened the Town of Valley View two months ago.

Ray Fletcher, the Cooke County Emergency Management Coordinator, says people are still struggling to clean up, put food on the table and try to regain some normalcy after the deadly EF-3 tornado touched down on May 24.

“There’s been a lot of good volunteer help in both the debris, vegetative and the other construction and demolition debris picking that up. But there’s still a significant amount out there,” said Fletcher. 

Fletcher spends a lot of his time in Valley View, where seven people lost their lives. 

“There’s probably a year or two at least, just to get the physical recovery done for these folks, not to mention the psychological recovery, that that will take forever,” he said.

A few neighbors in Denton want to relieve some of that burden.

On Saturday, the nonprofit Love for Kids, Inc. and …