Jim Good
04-29-2011, 8:48 AM
Last Wednesday my area (Huntsville, Alabama) was hit with tornadoes and a ton of rain. After hunkering down during the afternoon and evening, we lost our power but the house was intact. The entire county is without power so no signal lights, restaurants, GAS!, or government offices running.
With this said, I packed the family (wife and 3 kids) and headed to Tennessee. We are going to hang out in Gatlinburg for a few days.
I have some Creekers with some orders that should have gone out the past 2 days but with everything shut down and me trying to restrain the 19-month old, it will probably be Monday before I can get packages out. I will email those folks today but I thought this may help get word out for now.
There are many people dead and I've seen some of the damage. I consider myself lucky and will pray for the families affected. Last night while in Walmart in Pigeon Forge, the checkout lady said that an older lady got a call from family while in the store and was told her 2 granddaughters (13 and 5 years old) died from the tornadoes in Alabama.
I'm being told 5-7 days before power gets back to the county. Hopefully, that will be reduced. Last count I heard was 135 people dead but I'm behind on my news. I hope it isn't much higher.
Got to go for now. The youngest (Jonathan) woke me up early this morning so I better feed him and we'll plan the activities for today. Just wanted my Creek family to know what was going on.
Jim
With this said, I packed the family (wife and 3 kids) and headed to Tennessee. We are going to hang out in Gatlinburg for a few days.
I have some Creekers with some orders that should have gone out the past 2 days but with everything shut down and me trying to restrain the 19-month old, it will probably be Monday before I can get packages out. I will email those folks today but I thought this may help get word out for now.
There are many people dead and I've seen some of the damage. I consider myself lucky and will pray for the families affected. Last night while in Walmart in Pigeon Forge, the checkout lady said that an older lady got a call from family while in the store and was told her 2 granddaughters (13 and 5 years old) died from the tornadoes in Alabama.
I'm being told 5-7 days before power gets back to the county. Hopefully, that will be reduced. Last count I heard was 135 people dead but I'm behind on my news. I hope it isn't much higher.
Got to go for now. The youngest (Jonathan) woke me up early this morning so I better feed him and we'll plan the activities for today. Just wanted my Creek family to know what was going on.
Jim