The news is very sad coming out of Alabama and the other southern states hit by the tornadoes this week. 238 dead in Alabama the paper stated this morning with another 436 missing….. Unbelievable…..The pictures of destruction is massive….Our prayers are with all you folks trying to dig out from all the wreckage down there in Tuscaloosa…My home town of Reform was not spared either, but no injuries I hear. I  heard from a niece in Reform and she and her family are ok as is her property. Those storms always scared me. My Dad was afraid of storms and my Mom said “if the Lord wants me he will get me in a storm cellar” so she would never go to one. I was torn between Mom and Dad and sometimes would go with Dad, but more often I would stay with Mom. The only time I heard my Mom pray out loud was during a storm in the mid fifties, laying across the bed and the ceiling of the house was opening, dropping dust and dirt on us,  as the wind pulled and tugged on the house. Dairy cans from McShan, five miles away were seen flying through the air. Mom had me in her arms, laying on the bed, praying for our safety. It went over us, thanks be to Jesus, but it made a believer out of me….Believer in prayer, in the power of storms and the need to have some form of protection available. Years later, living in tornado alley in Decatur, Tx, if storms were in the area, I would pace the floor during the night looking in all directions for any signs of storms as sleep for me was impossible. Now, here in Albuquerque, we have a host of problems, but we have never had a tornado, to my knowledge….High winds, blowing dust, electrical storms, droughts, jet fuel in our drinking water, blizzards, atomic bomb blasts, UFO’s, a few ghosts here and there, but no tornadoes…To you folks in Alabama, Mississippi, Georgia and the other states involved, our prayers are with you…..

I just spoke with a friend in Madison, AL who is without power as are 700,000 plus other folks in northern Alabama he says. He had no property loss either but all of the state is suffering. He mentioned that he had some solar power lights like one puts around their driveway, etc, and is using them to give him some light in his home. He says you can’t use them to read, but at least you can see to get around. Pretty good thinking, huh? He mentioned that he has natural gas to cook and heat his water with, so that is a blessing. He also said folks were advertising for homes to take a shower in. That is so sad, huh? Hopefully, ya’ll will soon have the power restored. My brother used to work for Alabama Power Co and I know that they are hard at work to restore the power to you guys…God bless you.
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