Yesterday

Thank you all for your prayers for my parents. The tornado destroyed their neighborhood yesterday and passed right across their street only 3 or 4 houses down. Those houses are gone. Houses across the street are gone. Their house is still standing and is fine on the inside. The outside is severely damaged. No trees are still standing except for the Dogwood tree that my brother's doctor planted 19 years ago on the day before my brother passed away that evening - one of the little blessings as the tree means the world to my mother as you can imagine. They have no power. Houses only two or three doors down are completely leveled as the path of the tornado crossed their street. My brother called and said he was walking the neighborhood and he had counted 10 houses so far that were leveled. Please continue to pray as my disabled grandmother lives with them and she refuses to leave because she wants to be in her own room. They have a generator to run the fridge and one light off of. My mother said she saw the warning, took a minute or two to get my grandmother to the hall, heard the noise of the storm, heard the window shatter and then it was gone. She said she looked out and couldn't believe the devastation that happened in a matter of seconds. In light of what their neighborhood looks like, Mom and Dad are blessed to be alive. Many of their neighbors were not home like my Mom and Grandmother when the storm hit. We are blessed. Please pray for the city of Murfreesboro and please praise Him for protection for my family and for the hundreds of people affected. Please pray for the family who lost the young mother and baby and for the father who is in critical condition.



Blessings,
Dori