After 6 days of no powers am thankful for everything....

So a week after the horrible tornados came through Alabama and after 6 long days of having no power, I am so thankful that my friends and family are okay and only sustained minium damage. I wanted to ask everyone to keep this great state and the people that lost love ones and everything in their prayers.

I hope all is well with everyone. Thanks.

Kerri

Glad you and your loved ones are okay. Such horrible devastation and loss of life.

Hi,

Glad you are ok, that you have power again. Very thankful you are safe. I am in Alabama too, but in central Alabama, where we were very lucky. It is heartbreaking to see the pictures of the northern part of the state, especially Tuscaloosa. I hope all is well and that your migraines aren't bad right now.

Pain free days,
sailingm

Hunter,

I'm so sorry to hear what your state has been through. It's hard to comprehend the scale of the damage and the horror of what people have been going through. I'm in Queensland, Australia - our state suffered months of flooding and then cyclones hit up north to top it off. We aren't very populated so we were fortunate not to experience the same loss of life - but still, babies ripped from mothers arms by the flood water, and parents and children swept away is an image hard to get out of my mind. That kind of intensity x 300 clearly occurred in Alabama and my heart goes out to the grieving.

I hope your people have a better time with their insurance companies than our people have had. Thousands of homes were/are destroyed here - but insurance companies have said that floods are not defined by water coming through your house as a result of unprecedented rainfall! If it's a flash flood, stormwater run off, urban drainage backing up, a river rising, - all these are different sorts of things and the insurance doesn't cover them as floods necessarily. Hope that's not the case in the USA for the rebuild.

Best of luck,

Just wanted to say thank you to everyone for your prayers for the whole state!!! We will be recovering for a long time and I am glad that I live in such a wonderful state and that everyone has poored their hearts and souls our to the survivors and the people who have lost everything!!! I cannot believe the amount of volunteers, giving up of their free time, and just being there for one another...its just powerful!

Thanks for everything!!