Tornado Cleanup in Jacksonville

     Barkers and Barfuss's drove over an hour to help out in Jacksonville. Our missionaries were all protected, some eating dinner in the dark in basements/shelters. The worst area of destruction went right through the college campus and up and over a hill, 35 miles long and 300 yards wide.  The residents we talked to said it only lasted about 5 minutes and many people waited it out in their basements.  One family said they only heard a small noise and noticed the smell of dirt.  When they opened the door at the top of their stairs, they were looking at the sky!!  The tornado had taken their roof off without a sound!!  The miracle is that not one person died and there were only four injuries reported!!
     The area had to be policed, secured with a 7:00 pm curfew to prevent looting. After we checked in at the community center, we took two different buses before arriving at the assigned work site.

 How did the beautiful azaleas survive?

This couple brought their own bobcat and were in their 70's.  They also adopted an orphanage in Haiti that they visit yearly

                 There is a car under a building in this photo and Steve walked over to snap it

The owner built his own house and was a math teacher at the college!!

   Alabama  Power had the grid replaced in two days with 1600 workers!! Each home has to be certified safe to wire into the grid, so many people will be without power for a long time and have to be in temporary housing.