So many have lost everything, many have lost loved ones ! My heart breaks for those folks! Let’s join together and lift them up in prayer! I always pray for my friends at united trappers of Kentucky! Thank you all for praying for me !
7 Likes
Chuck and talked about that in the camper at the meet. There’s always someone suffering and we should feel thankful it didn’t swing up a 150 miles to the west.
5 Likes
From looking at some of the damage assessments there are multiple interstates impacted and if the interstates are impacted it is only logical to assume that parallel feeder roads are also impacted and these things aren’t twenty minute fixes. Transportation and travel is going to be impacted for a long time as a result of this. It will be weeks before the final body count is in, this has been a truly devastating storm. It will impact us all for quite a while but some will be more impacted than others. We all need to stay in prayer about this and for our Nation.
4 Likes
Praying for those affected, those who rush in to try and save lives, and for those who are trying to rebuild and restore infrastructure like roads and electrical power! Anytime something like this happens, it shows just how vulnerable we are, and how easily a natural or Man made disaster can affect each one of us! Hopefully, when this mess starts getting cleaned up, more people throughout the entire Country will learn some lessons from it, and make common sense preparations to get through rough times on their own for a couple of weeks if need be. Things like having some cash on hand to cover needs, Water, food, hygiene items, medicine,and medical equipment, enough gas to run chain saws, generators, vehicles, etc. Alternate ways to heat your home, or cook, and handy things like rope, duct tape, flashlights, can openers, wool blankets, and whatever you think you might ever need if the electric grid went down in your area, or if Civil disturbance, or Natural Disasters caused areas near you to be cut off, or be too dangerous to travel through! …You get the idea,…Like the old Boy Scout Motto said, “Be Prepared!”
1 Like
Over the years of working flood aftermath in Kentucky it is the most devastating thing you can imagine. It is so messy and muddy and you have everyone’s upstream misery deposited on you. The smell never leaves those houses. It doesn’t have to be swift flowing water either. Just the rising level in calm backwater gets many. Now I see there is another one forming in the same path as this one down near Cancun.
I’ve helped a few people over the years clean out after the river got up in the homes it’s a mess.
The worst I ever seen though only lasted about 15 mins. A flash flood blowed out of. A little holler and filled a house plum full of oaks,hickory, walnuts, spignuts and leaves. there was a mud line 2’ up the wall.
She thought somebody was nocking on the back door opened it and it washered her to the front of the house.
Water is the real deal
Colt
1 Like
Am I the only one that thinks the people concerned with dog, horse and cat rescue are off base? People come first always. I remember working a flood in eastern Ky and saw a dozen people with a trailer that said dog rescue. I assumed they were using dogs to find the missing. At that time people were missing and misery was everywhere. They were actually there looking for misplaced dogs. I’d hate to think I’d look for a dog and pass by people that need help.
3 Likes
A bunch of us went down to the Gulf years ago, after Katrina blew through and stayed for a week or so doing what we could to help clean up. I will never forget the destruction! The ones that survived pointed out, that you didn’t see any dogs or cats around anywhere, because they didn’t make it! And any that did, I guess were on the menu after about a week or so with no food to be had anywhere! I feel terrible for the folks down in the Southern Mountain areas! They will need help for years to come down there! As it stands now, it looks like most of them are on their own; until they get access into those remote places in order to even be able to try and help!
There are so many that are in smaller communities, up hollers, along the creeks that no one knows about. The media is focusing on Asheville which is terrible. There have been many lives and properties literally wiped forever off the map. Truly a devastating disaster that will go on for months and years. I hope the one out in the Atlantic turns away from us.
3 Likes
Praying it does too and for all those effected
1 Like