Tornado Relief Day Two (5.7.2011)

Well day two was a little different than day one. The first afternoon I was able to meet up with my church in we were in the section of Pleasant Grove that got hit the worst. That part had whole houses destroyed and like I said the day before we mainly helped people get things from under their destroyed house. Well on Saturday we went to a part that was hit hard, but most of the houses on the street were still standing. However, as the pictures will show at the bottom, this section had some big, big, (did I say big?) trees down. We had more people join our group and so we ended up splitting up to two groups for most of the day. My group helped a family of four out at their house. Their house was still standing although they had some roof damage and even though we did not see it they said there was a lot of damage on the inside of the house. We spent the entire day outside helping to remove trees out of their yard. We had two or three people cutting up the trees with chain saws and the others of us were lugging the parts of the tree up a hill to the road (in order for a truck (s) to pick it up). It does not sound like much helping to take trees out of the yard, but Chad and his wife Vanessa both told us that they were very appreciative of the help because their fence had been destroyed and they were not able to let their dogs or children play in the yard.






















So I think the pictures speak for themselves. The small group shots are part of my church group that was there. Anyway, continue to pray for the families of Pleasant Grove and I pray that many more people will help there.