Thursday, at 3:45 AM, Chris, Ben, and I headed down to Ashville, AL to help with the disaster relief effort. After a few Loca Moca Monsters, we stopped at Chick-fil-a for some chicken biscuits. At 8:00 we arrived at the Boyds. The first people we saw when we got out of the truck were some friends that live 7 miles from us. It was strange to see somebody from home first thing. Anyway, we were redirected to the Crawford place where work was beginning to start for the day. After surveying the damage we went to work with our chainsaws. Log after log, limb after limb, we sawed and stacked until 6:00pm. The crew that was pulling up flooring from the remaining house structure were starting to look tired, so we helped them out until 7:30 when we packed up and hit the road...the road to Steak 'n Shake. Oh, yeah. A few Monsters and many miles later, we arrived home 12:15am...and we crashed.
The Crawfords house used to sit on this foundation.
And the chimney fell through the floor
We also helped the Crawfords neighbor clean up his yard.
Money doesn't grow on trees, but sheet metal might...
This is a picture of one ridge of the valley...
This is a picture of the ridge on the side of the valley most affected by the tornados. Aaron Crawford said this ridge looked like the one in the picture above before the tornado hit.
He also said that the tornado passed in 45 seconds and was about a mile wide. Incredible.
Many of the trees had rocks and grass embedded in the trunks.
Hey man:
ReplyDeleteThanks so much for all your help! It was a tremendous blessing. Jesse told me y'all knocked a bunch of stuff out at his place.