Tornado

                        At about 4 o'clock today a tornado hit about 20-25 miles from us here in North Carolina.
                        One of our crews saw the tornado on their way home from the work site.
                        Just as we were finishing our supper we got a call for our team to come and help put up

                        plywood and tarps on some homes that were hit because it is going to rain tonight.
                        We drove down to the area of destruction. The women weren't able to do much but the
                        men all were busy. It is now 11:30 pm and they are still putting a tarp on another house.

                        It was almost dark when we got there but I managed to get a few pictures.

This is what is left of the home belonging to a family of 8.  The mother is due with her 7th child
 in a week. They had  a 1 year old set of twins. They barely made it out of their house on time.

People sorting through the rubble looking for anything that survived the tornedo. Their whole
place was dumped on a big heap in their backyard and  a lot of trees where mixed in with the
rubble. They found some toys, shoes, clothes, books, papers etc.



The family van.


We went to a few other homes too. The father of the women in the above home is
the pastor of the URC here. The roof of their home was ripped right off. They had to
move all their stuff out this evening. There are a lot of trees down everywhere and
debris hanging in the trees and lying around. It is quite something to see in real life!


The pastor's deck.