Tuscaloosa Day 3

The tornado damage looks like a war zone. The damage is hard to understand. One house sits untouched with everything around it devastated. The path of the tornado goes for miles. This particular tornado was one mile wide and six miles long. Tuscaloosa had several tornadoes in the Spring. We were assigned a house to demolish. The insurance company totaled the house but did not pay enough money for the demolition. You will see the before picture and the after picture of what we did today. The heat is excessive. We have decided that we will not complain about our Texas heat again. The man that owned this house lived there for 40 years. He raised his family there. His wife died there. He has a little dog for his companion. The tornado carried the little dog one mile away and stuck him in a fence. The poor little dog stayed there for 3 days until someone found him. He was hungry and thirsty but he was nourished back to health. His owner was so excited to have him back. He is the little dog in our group picture in front of the house.

Hopefully, we will finish the house tomorrow and move to another. We have the opportunity to join Habitat for Humanity to build a house.

We do not have internet service or phone service where we are staying. We are staying at a church way out in the country. We are in McDonald's, in the cool air conditioning to post this blog.

Now, we are headed back to the church where we will have worship.

Thank you for your prayers.