Tornadoes

Alabama’s Recurring Nightmare.

January 24, 2012

Thank you all for your concerned tweets, comments, emails, and Facebook messages yesterday. We are okay. Living in Alabama, as much as I adore it otherwise, is beginning to feel like a nasty game of Tornado Roulette. Just the mention of tornadoes has a vastly different impact on me (and most likely the rest of [...]

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Christmas, Eight Months Later.

November 22, 2011

April 27. Two hundred and eleven tornadoes – in one day. Two hundred and forty three deaths – in Alabama alone. Six months have come and gone since that horrific day that forever changed our state. And, even though it felt like it wouldn’t, life goes on.  But not without it’s scars. So many people’s [...]

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Twenty Minutes Away.

May 14, 2011

We took Ali with us today to have the opportunity to give away some of her toys, and to help serve our community. We fixed Hot Dogs, Hamburgers, and served BBQ donated by Jim N Nick’s to tornado victims and volunteers.   And I am not naive in thinking that what Ali saw today won’t [...]

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What You’ve Done for Alabama.

May 13, 2011

If anyone still doesn’t believe that “Internet Friends” are just as real as “In Real Life Friends”, then they’ve never been in a crisis situation. To help with tornado relief, you have ordered over $1,200 of items off of the Christian Service Mission’s Amazon Wish List (you’re part of the reason that UPS had to [...]

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Relief Updates…and…Couponing Advice Needed!

May 7, 2011

I’ve been able to share about some new Tornado relief options on two other blogs lately, so I wanted to update here as well. And I know that I’m talking a LOT about our tornadoes right now – I hope you’ll understand and bear with me – but that’s quite simply our life right now.  [...]

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How To Be a Tornado Relief Hero By Using Social Media.

May 3, 2011

We all know that in the past, disaster relief has been a disaster.  Katrina, Ivan, the Oil Spills – they’ve all been a nightmare of unhelpful help.  There’s administration.  And paperwork.  And too many people wanting to help with not enough people being able to point them in a direction.  And politics – different relief [...]

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My “How to Help” Recommendations.

April 29, 2011

I’m going to go back to “normal” blogging next week, although I’ll still be, I’m sure, in tornado-mindset personally. However, many of you have asked how you can help, so I wanted to compile a list of a few easy ways to help the many hurting people of our state. But first, here is a [...]

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The Aftermath.

April 28, 2011

First of all, thank you SO MUCH for all of your thoughts and prayers last night.  We had no power, no television, no phone service on our home phone or cell phones, but we could get spotty Twitter, Facebook, and email on our phones, and it was really wonderful to be able to focus my [...]

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Alabama

April 27, 2011

** Update: we’re okay but the damage to the state is devastating. I don’t ever remember tornadoes hitting three major metropolitan areas in one day. I’ll share more when we get our power back, whenever that may be. Cell phones also aren’t working so if you’re in Alabama, let me know you’re okay, too! *** [...]

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