Praise Report!

I went back this afternoon to my mother's house to take my sister a huge ice chest, ice and lunch meat. The power is out and is not expected to be back on until Wednesday. My mother is still at her sister's helping care for her after her emergency surgery last week. I am very thankful that my mom left home last Thursday morning and didn't have to ride out the storm at home alone.

Well, nothing has changed since I was there yesterday...still looks like a war zone but the cleanup is well underway. There were volunteers, church buses with youth helping clean up trees, limbs, sweeping the streets and cooking food for people that live there and the works. God is so good!!!

When I was approaching town on the highway, my brother was pulling my uncles truck down the shoulder of the road with a big tractor and someone behind the wheel of the wrecked truck...waving at the passerbys! That was funny. It landed about a 100 yards out in a wet, muddy field and he had to be cut out of it.

When I got to my mom's house and we unloaded the ice chest...the power came back on! PTL!

Then we got word that my uncle was sitting up, talking to everyone, had already been to dialysis and was headed to surgery to fix his arm. I have since heard that he is out of surgery with plates and screws to fix the open fracture in his arm but that his vital are good and he is doing awesome.

God heard our prayers and answered them in an awesome way. My uncle went from not going to make it at midnight Friday night/Saturday morning to sitting up talking to everyone on Sunday morning! Only God can do that. Yes, He still does miracles today!!!!!

The other lady who is in her late 90's that was not expected to live either is said to be improving everyday also. So far...F3 tornado and NO FATALITIES!!!! God's hand of protection was on each and every person in that little town on Friday and He has not removed His hand from then. He is still working and moving in that small community of about 4,000 people....if that many.

Here are some pictures of the destruction that the tornado left behind.

Downed trees 2 bk. from my mom's

Earle Baptist Church

Santuary completely removed from the middle of the church.

Pastor's office, choir room on right is still there. The church office, fellowship hall and Sunday school rooms on left are still there. Santuary from front to back is removed smoothly right out of the middle, not a single pew was left...with the balcony still hanging on the back wall and the choir loft still intack also. Amazing!

Baptist Church Family Life Center...completely destroyed.

House in my old subdivision

More damage in my old neighborhood

All that's left of YM Young's house...wife critically injured but improving

Site of 2 houses next door to YM's house...now GONE!

All that is left of one of those homes

Mr. Davis' overturned truck

Mrs. King's house...elderly lady was sitting

in recliner and told family she looked up

and saw the sky. Never knew it was coming.

Very old trees all over town...downed

The Capp's house...elderly couple were

in the hall...buried but unhurt! PTL!

Local factory...loading dock and warehouse destroyed

Someone's attic stairs in my mom's tree

My uncle's truck after being hit by the tornado

and rolled over 100 yards into a field.