Aerial View of Shoal Creek Valley

Crawford/Liverett Property

The above picture was posted on Kelly Crawford's blog and is an aerial photo of their home and property after the April 27th tornado.  You can see several cement slabs - all that was left - of their family's home, a rental home, her parent's barn, her parent's shop, and her parent's home.  You can also see the thousands of trees, mowed over, stripped of their bark, and lying horizontal.

We have heard several eye witness accounts of people who saw entire, enormous, hardwood trees, root ball and all, just sucked right up into the tornado and never seen again.  Our friends are still finding their belongings strewn about the Valley.  A family in Georgia found a page of pictures from the Lee's photo album as it rained down in their yard hundreds of miles away from where it was sucked up into the vortex.

We continue to be amazed at the power of the tornado and the destruction left in its path.  Please continue to pray for these families, our friends, as they adjust to so many changes and losses.  Its been two months since the tornado - and there is still so much more to be done.  Volunteers are needed as these families prepare to rebuild and start over.