NavyMom289
05-12-2008, 03:35 AM
An EF-3 tornado (136 - 165 MPH winds) struck the Arkansas town of Stuttgart Saturday night. 150-200 homes and businesses affected, including a nursing home with 97 residents, including my grandmother, my DEPper's great-grandmother. No fatalities, but 3,000 without power, possibly for a week.
My uncle's house was also hit.
My mother was in town, but in a hotel, but had been at Wal-Mart not an hour earlier. And had her and dad not ended up spending the night in two different places in two different towns because the money-pit RV had broken down and mom went to see her mom (of the nursing home), they might be dead, because the RV would have been in the Wally World parking lot, in the tornado path.
Please pray for those who have stepped up to the challenge of cleaning up, repairing and rebuilding... who got 97 residents safely from their beds, into wheelchairs and into the hallway before the building was hit. They are looking at the better part of a week before they get back power.... and the residents of the nursing home were shipped out to facilities in three other cities.
Thank you everyone.....
My uncle's house was also hit.
My mother was in town, but in a hotel, but had been at Wal-Mart not an hour earlier. And had her and dad not ended up spending the night in two different places in two different towns because the money-pit RV had broken down and mom went to see her mom (of the nursing home), they might be dead, because the RV would have been in the Wally World parking lot, in the tornado path.
Please pray for those who have stepped up to the challenge of cleaning up, repairing and rebuilding... who got 97 residents safely from their beds, into wheelchairs and into the hallway before the building was hit. They are looking at the better part of a week before they get back power.... and the residents of the nursing home were shipped out to facilities in three other cities.
Thank you everyone.....