One Year Later: Remembrance and Celebration

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I'm John Avera, and today we don't have John Hall at the moment.
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He may come in later, but he had an emergency and had to leave.
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But we're here today.
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It's May 17th, and yesterday was the one year anniversary of the tornado in London.
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So that's what we're here to talk about.
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I've got about nine of the youth with me from church here, and I've got Gary back with us.
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Um he's uh he came to talk about his book earlier, and uh we're gonna try to get some progress about that.
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But yesterday we had a what was called a service to remember the the people who were lost and the celebrate the people who worked really hard during the tornado.
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And most of y'all were there, right?
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Yeah, yeah, yeah.
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Um it was kind of weird for me because I got a phone call, the church did anyway, and asked if the pastor would want to speak to represent Heart Baptist and all the work that we did because we were in the middle of it and uh had the little relief center and everything.
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And so when they were told that we didn't have a pastor at the time, but we had an associate pastor, they asked if I would go ahead and speak, and so I told them yes.
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I thought that was a great opportunity, and so I wrote all this stuff up, and you know, I I thought I was the only one doing the speaking part anyway, but uh I wrote it all up, and when I got the lineup for the day, just a couple days before, by the way, uh it had me in only for the opening prayer, so that kind of broke my heart a little bit because of all the stuff I had written out, but I just decided I would do whatever I wanted to do, and I just said what I wanted to say and then did the prayer.
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And so I thought it turned out pretty well, but uh it ended up, I think it's mostly just a um what is it, a political political event, yeah, because basically every speaker there was running for something this year.
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Um a lot of them were already in people, the incumbents that are already in there, but it turned out being a huge political event.
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Uh Jacqueline Coleman, our um lieutenant governor was there.
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Um the governor had a video that he showed.
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Uh it had all different people here locally that was running for something.
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Um when the videos came out though, a lot of my family over in Somerset were wanting to see that.
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And um when I looked it up, I fast-forwarded just to hear my part.
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I wanted to hear what it sounded like, you know.
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And I spoke right after our superintendent, Denise Griebel, spoke.
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So when I saw her, I kind of just slowly scrolled through and then it skipped me and went straight to Jacqueline Coleman.
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I was like, what in the world?
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So I've I was like, well, I've scrolled too much.
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So I backed up, you know, and looked again, and I was just pretty much cut out.
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So I did question that, and they said that there was a problem with the camera and everything, that they didn't uh keep it running because they had to do something else, which I could understand, but later on, in the exact same, it cut me and the singer out.
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So I he sang two songs.
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He sang right after I spoke, and then he sang again, and it cut both of his songs out somehow.
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So I don't know what to believe, really.
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Um what do y'all think?
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You think so?
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I I kind of wondered if it was because of my uh prayer.
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You know, I had the prayer, I spoke from a religious point of view, but then again, I looked, and the other two preachers that were there were not cut out.
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Um, but one of them read the names of the people who passed, and there were 19 of those, by the way.
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I don't know if we ever mentioned that in the last setting.
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Did you remember talking about that, Gary?
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No, I don't.
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I don't remember that we gave it numbers.
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I don't think we actually really had heard the numbers specifically, or you know, maybe I just didn't pay attention, but uh there were 19 people here in London that passed away from that, and I think two in other counties because this tornado went through three counties.
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That's how far it went.
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So by the time it got to us, it was very, very strong, which is obviously why it looks like it does now just down the road.
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Um I was sitting out on my back deck or back porch just yesterday and looking, and I thought, man, the the whole scenery of my backyard is totally different than what it used to be.
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Those trees, you know, after they were mostly blown down last year back in the canyon, the leaves were all gone off of them, and then it was winter, so they never came back.
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But here it's it's spring now, or almost summer, or it is summer.
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Um the foliage has come back and it just does not look the same as what it used to, and it's it's really weird when you think about it.
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Sit back there, and you used to have a forest behind you, and now you can hardly see anything.
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But I brought all these people in because uh they were most of them were the original ones that come to talk about the tornado, except for a couple, and one of them is mad at me.
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I won't mention any names, her name's Madison.
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But she's with us today, and Gary also is writing a book about the tornado, and I was hoping that he would be able to maybe share a couple stories that he's heard from some of the victims just to kind of uh see where that lies and maybe where his book lies in the process, and so that's what we'll be doing today.
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Um, who anybody want to speak about anything first?
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Maybe what you did during the tornado relief.
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I mean, I guess I'll go first.
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Um I will say it was cool to see the community come together um at that event um yesterday, regardless of maybe the intentions that people had or didn't have with the event.
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I mean, I thought it was a good turnout.
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There's a lot of people there.
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A lot of people that were impacted were there, um, and it clearly seemed to mean a lot to them.
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Um and it was just a nice uh way to be involved in the community, but they did not do a good job marketing it.
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I had no idea about it until John told me about it.
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So excuse me, but I thought that was interesting.
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Definitely could use a little bit more marketing from the perspective of the city on social media for people that are 25 and under, even 30 and under, to be honest.
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But um, you know, I we've come a long way in the last year.
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I was at we were actually driving through like one of the biggest impacted areas, kind of like where Emerald Drive is around there.
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Like we drove past the street sign, like coming this way.
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And um, I seen a lot of the rebuilds and I was like, man, that's crazy.
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Like this has all happened really fast.
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And um a lot of people are rebuilding that makes me happy to see.
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You know, I I'm hop I'm hoping that we were able to have a positive impact on all those people.
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Um that we were able to provide, you know, hopefully a smile and materials and supplies with.
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So that was really cool.
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And um just again, just to see it kind of taking shape.
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A lot of beautiful homes in there being rebuilt.
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I hope those people are doing well and praying that their insurance companies did right by them and that they're not having any troubles.
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So I don't know.
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I guess that's will be my opening thoughts.
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Is it's cool to see how far it's came in just a calendar year.
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Yeah.
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I thought it was a really good turnout as well yesterday.
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Yeah.
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And really, if it had been marketed more, I don't know that you'd have had room in that gym.
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No.
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Put anybody else.
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No, there was not many seats in there.
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It was over at uh Wine Pine Elementary, which is one of the newer elementary schools, but obviously elementary gyms are not huge.
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Um there's just one side of bleachers, so like the bleachers were pretty much full.
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And then they had chairs on the floor.
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Oh, yeah.
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They were all full.
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But just looking out, like some of them said, with the uh the tears that were flowing from some of the people that had lived through it when they heard people speaking, you could tell that they were still hurt a year later.
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Of course.
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Um one thing I did notice too, and you see, I saw it from the opposite view of what you all saw it from.
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So you didn't get to see a lot of this because they were sitting towards the front and you were over in the back.
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So uh when it when they started reading the names, you know, when the person who they were there to, I guess remember when their name was read, you could just see it in their face.
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That's their person.
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And so, you know, it it was kind of emotional sitting up there and watching all that.
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And then uh, but I just what I wanted to do was get up there because he told me that he wanted me to speak because we I was from Heart Baptist and we had done so much, and he wanted us to be a part of it, and so I I took that as he wants me to speak about what we did, how it came about, um, you know, and just the relief center itself.
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And so that's what I tried to do was talk about the relief center, the things we had done, how things initiated, and you know, how they came about, how it went from just a couple cases of water to a full general store, and then went from that to deliveries every single day.
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In like one day, all that happened in like one day.
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And even uh, I don't even know if we mentioned this in the last episode that we talked about tornado, but y'all remember the day um like two days in when they were supposed the Red Cross was supposed to come get a few things to get it out of our way and take it over to their relief center.
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And it was the prisoners that came, they sent the the prisoners, the work release.
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They came out and they took everything we had, remember?
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So we were left pretty much with nothing.
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And uh so we had we were all thinking, why in the world would they take all this from us when we're right here in the middle of it?
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Well, by the next day, we were built back up.
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Yep, totally, with probably five times more than what we had.
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And that's when the National Guard came in, they started staying here every night.
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And you know, they're they're different people I want to thank later on, but anybody else want to share while we're talking about it?
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Let's try to keep more on uh the day of, the day after, and the week after, I guess.
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One of the things I wanted to say, one of the things that struck me about yesterday is when they asked the question, how many people here, and like you said, it was a huge crowd.
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This you know, the the bleachers were pretty much full, and they asked how many people here didn't help with the tornado, and no one raised their hand.
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Right.
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It it spoke volumes about what kind of community support there had been to recover from the tornado.
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I mean, pretty much everyone pitched in and did something in in some way or another.
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And I would almost probably agree with that that uh everyone was telling the truth.
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Because I have never seen a community come together like they did.
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And I'm not just talking donations and stuff like that, but like when we went out, people getting their hands dirty, even on that first day when we went out, you know, it was hard to get through that.
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It we had a police escort, thankful.
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But it was really hard to get through all that.
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But once we got out there, there were people everywhere with excavators and uh skid steers and just moving stuff, and I'm like, man, they're on it.
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People, you know, digging through the rubble, trying to find things.
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It was it was really cool to see uh them come together like they did.
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Anybody else?
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I can talk about something.
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The first day we've had a bunch of storms before, and normally they don't go bad as as this one did.
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So I went downstairs, I went to sleep, and the next morning I woke up to the horrendous things that happened the night before.
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And my buddy called me up, said his grandma got hit by the tornado.
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So he called me up, asked if I could come help them try to clean their rubble out of the house.
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And that was my first day.
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I wasn't I wasn't at heart for the first day.
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So I didn't even I didn't even know anything was happening here until my brother Aaron, he came over and brought picked me up from his uh from my friend's mama's house.
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And we came over here the second day, and I was amazed at what I saw.
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I didn't think that so much would have happened in the one day that I was gone, and I come here, and there's a massive operation just already brewing something to help everybody out.
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It was just kind of amazing to me.
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And there was one day that we was handing out Bibles and sunscreen in the back of the truck, and there was one lady that she whenever she came up to the truck, she was crying because she lost her, I think it was her dog.
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And she whenever we gave her the Bible, she was just so thankful for that.
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And I don't I don't think I've ever seen anybody taking so much just thankfulness for just a small handheld Bible.
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I I just thought that spoke volumes to me, to me personally.
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So I'm not sure who it was that thought of that, the uh sunscreen thing, but that was probably one of the best runs that we had made.
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We had the we had the little bug screen sunspray combo spray.
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I remember handing that out towards the end, and we like ran out like people were burned up out there, like they were just out all day long working.
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Yeah, and that's one thing I wanted to stress up there yesterday, you know, was you all are like either teenagers or you know, college age or whatever, but you were out there like 13, 14 hours a day.
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And I didn't mention this, but you know, I was thinking, well, after that first day, you know, it'd be hard to get them up here, but I was getting a call day two, day three.
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Where are you at?
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I'm already up here, you know, and I'm like, well, I'll be there in a minute.
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But you know, I was getting the call saying, you know, where are you?
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And so I I was just impressed all around, not just from you all, but also just from our church, from our community.
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Uh, there's people I want to thank while I'm on here, and those who are listening, I wanted you all to hear it.
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I want to thank one, the Laurel County Sheriff's Department and the Kentucky State Police because both of them were here on that first day, and they are the ones that helped us get through the mess to make those deliveries.
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Um, they gave us an escort, and I don't think we would have got through without them because people would have told us just turn around and get out of here, you're in the way.
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So that got us started for the first couple days, and but we kept going without them, you know.
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But uh anyway, I wanted to thank them for that.
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A National Guard, Kentucky National Guard, came in and helped to keep the place secure and safe.
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You know, you never know when you're dealing with public and the tensions going around and everybody, then you have people coming in who are trying to steal and take things when they're not even part of it.
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You know, I know that there was a car that stopped one day to ask where Sunshine Hills was and how to get there, and it was a car full of four guys, and I know good and well they weren't going out there to help.
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So we didn't tell them how to get there.
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But anyway, so I'd like to thank them just for the security and safety of the relief center and all of the deliveries, traffic control, you know, things that people don't think about.
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Another person I'd really like to thank, I don't know who it is or what his name would be, but it's our trash guy.
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That was very important because he decided to take it upon himself to stop here every day at the end of the day, at the end of his route, no matter where it was, he came by here to empty out our trash bin outside.
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And if he had not done that, I can imagine what it would look like out there.
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That's an unsung hero.
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I hope he hears this.
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Like it's crazy.
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I I mean, I was glad to see that, and he was a great help.
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Um, there are some local restaurants and businesses as well that helped us out.
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Farmers Pro Hardware and Lowe's Home Improvement.
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They donated tools, tarps, wheelbarrels, gloves, all kinds of supplies.
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Really kept us stocked.
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I don't even know how they got it here so fast, to be honest.
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Christian Appalachian Project.
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They various donations by the truckload, semi-truckload.
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Whoever brought those grapes, that's the best idea ever.
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Yeah.
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Well, why was that a good idea, Max?
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You remember?
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No.
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The grapes?
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I do.
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Why?
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Wait, what'd you say?
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Why are the grapes such a good idea?
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I said it like multiple times, that's why I'm making a joke out of it.
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I thought you were just talking about the grapes.
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I was like, yeah, I remember because it was a good snack just to eat.
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The duck song, that's what you're talking about.
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No, I said because it's the perfect snack.
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You can just eat it and throw it down.
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Yeah.
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Oh, yeah, that's true.
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But the thing is, no one wanted to eat them, so we just had so many and just carrying around.
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There was a lot of grapes.
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But I'll tell you what, those are the best grapes I ever ate.
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Yeah, they were pretty good.
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They were good.
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Uh, Brandon's the kitchen by Brandon for the donations of the hot food and his food truck coming around.
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Uh, El Dorado did the same.
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They provided hot meals to deliver to the residents that were working out in this area.
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El Pescador did as well.
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El Pescador did.
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Um, there's there were so many out-of-town places coming in, food trucks, uh, people just coming to work from all across the United States, all the way down as far as Florida.
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And I thought that was pretty amazing.
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But um, and that was just at our relief center.
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I'm sure that many people, I mean, I saw other restaurants out there that set up trucks and tents to feed the people of the community.
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Yeah, we had one back here with a barbecue place that set up.
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I can't remember what they were calling.
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He was one of the out-of-town ones.
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I think he was from Louisiana.
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Yeah, and he just set up for Louisiana.
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Yeah, he set up here pretty much just to cook.
00:20:28.799 --> 00:20:28.960
Yeah.
00:20:29.119 --> 00:20:33.839
And he was taking his meals up to Walmart and feeding anybody that needed to eat.
00:20:34.000 --> 00:20:43.039
Um Koy Express also donated to us, and there was one more else, one other one that I can't think of, but Koy Express did and all the other ones you said as well.
00:20:43.279 --> 00:20:43.519
Okay.
00:20:43.680 --> 00:20:43.920
Definitely.
00:20:44.480 --> 00:20:47.119
I should have done a little more research before I did my big speech yesterday.
00:20:47.440 --> 00:20:50.559
I I just remember uh Koy like providing food for us.
00:20:50.640 --> 00:20:52.559
Oh, the uh firehouse coffee, is that what it's called?
00:20:52.720 --> 00:20:53.279
Firehouse coffee.
00:20:53.519 --> 00:20:54.079
Firehouse coffee.
00:20:54.319 --> 00:20:55.920
They brewed us coffee and they were like you said, they were.
00:20:56.319 --> 00:20:57.119
I think it's fire department.
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Fire department.
00:20:58.000 --> 00:20:59.599
It's one of the FDC.
00:20:59.920 --> 00:21:03.119
And then um a couple food trucks from again out of town.
00:21:03.279 --> 00:21:11.279
I can't remember their names, but they gave us the people that were working all the food that we could have asked for and more, and it was really good too.
00:21:11.519 --> 00:21:16.319
Yeah, the fire department coffee had a truck and they set up pretty much every day and gave out free coffee.
00:21:16.480 --> 00:21:18.400
And that's available at Walmart now, too.
00:21:18.480 --> 00:21:20.720
So you can buy their coffee there.
00:21:21.519 --> 00:21:25.759
I just wanted to plug that so people could do that, you know, since they were such a great help.
00:21:26.000 --> 00:21:29.599
Does anybody remember that guy that was selling the smoke baloney out of the truck?
00:21:30.160 --> 00:21:30.480
No.
00:21:30.799 --> 00:21:31.039
What?
00:21:31.599 --> 00:21:33.680
I remember him, but uh this is a smoke baloney sandwich.
00:21:35.279 --> 00:21:36.480
It was great, it was amazing.
00:21:36.559 --> 00:21:37.279
That's what they remember.
00:21:37.519 --> 00:21:38.640
They were heater, yeah.
00:21:39.200 --> 00:21:40.160
They were selling to us.
00:21:40.480 --> 00:21:41.119
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
00:21:41.279 --> 00:21:41.920
I remember that.
00:21:42.240 --> 00:21:43.680
Well, they weren't selling, they were giving.
00:21:43.920 --> 00:21:44.319
Yeah, sorry.
00:21:44.400 --> 00:21:45.599
They yeah, let me preface that.
00:21:45.920 --> 00:21:48.000
He called me somehow.
00:21:48.240 --> 00:21:55.200
How you guys I don't know how he got my number, but he called me and asked if we would be interested or have a place for him to come up and cook.
00:21:55.440 --> 00:21:59.680
And I was like, Yeah, um, you know, we've got a pretty large parking lot.
00:22:00.000 --> 00:22:03.359
We got a lot of workers up here that could really use some food.
00:22:03.440 --> 00:22:08.960
And I can't remember where he was from, but I'm I'm feeling like he was the one from Florida.
00:22:09.279 --> 00:22:12.960
Uh but I I can't remember for sure.
00:22:13.759 --> 00:22:17.039
It was important for here because you couldn't get away to eat.
00:22:17.200 --> 00:22:22.319
I mean, you were just you were here and you know, if that was the only way you were gonna eat.
00:22:22.720 --> 00:22:23.359
Yeah.
00:22:24.640 --> 00:22:28.480
Well, now let's just move on to now.
00:22:28.640 --> 00:22:29.279
Huh?
00:22:29.599 --> 00:22:31.680
One year, not a hundred years.
00:22:32.000 --> 00:22:34.799
I've said a hundred years a couple times on accident.
00:22:35.279 --> 00:22:36.960
The one year anniversary.
00:22:38.079 --> 00:22:42.000
Like I said earlier, my backyard looks totally different.
00:22:42.319 --> 00:22:50.480
And we were driving up here to church this morning, my wife and I, and I told her, I said, you know what?
00:22:51.279 --> 00:22:58.960
This day, last year, we were driving up here, and all that stuff was going into our youth building.
00:22:59.599 --> 00:23:05.680
All those donations were moving in, and we were sitting here wondering, what can we do to help?
00:23:05.839 --> 00:23:07.759
How can we help this community?
00:23:08.000 --> 00:23:19.200
And it's amazing that our church was still here because we're talking to the right and to the left, basically, all around us was gone.
00:23:20.799 --> 00:23:30.000
Uh, we're within uh 300 yards of the Sunshine Hills neighborhood, which was flattened completely, uh, straight down Heart Church Road here.
00:23:30.160 --> 00:23:44.079
A lot of those houses were taken out, but here our church still stood, and you know that that amazes me, and it makes me just kind of feel like we were spared because of that reason.
00:23:44.240 --> 00:23:48.160
That's this is what we were meant to do during this time.
00:23:48.319 --> 00:23:49.279
What do you all think?
00:23:49.519 --> 00:23:53.440
How how do you all view it now that it's a year later?
00:23:54.160 --> 00:24:08.000
Well, our church name is part of this missionary church, so I feel like God made our mission to where it was so close, like you said.
00:24:08.160 --> 00:24:14.000
I think there was a reason to spare this church just so we could open it and be right.
00:24:17.200 --> 00:24:27.839
Um on a positive note, I did think that the tornado really helped our bit because I mean we're all pretty close already.
00:24:27.920 --> 00:24:32.559
We were but we had so many different age groups, different grades.
00:24:33.119 --> 00:24:52.799
We kind of just didn't click in that way, but after meeting each other, going out twelve hours a day with each other, doing everything together, we clicked and formed a bond, and everyone I think noticed that and really did thank us for our service and for our help.
00:24:52.960 --> 00:24:57.440
And I think after that we really just became a really tight group.
00:24:57.839 --> 00:24:58.079
Yeah.
00:24:58.319 --> 00:25:01.519
One thing I spoke about yesterday was the spirit of the helper.
00:25:02.000 --> 00:25:05.920
And I felt like we all felt like we needed to help.
00:25:06.160 --> 00:25:16.400
And that's what made us come together because we all had the same goal and the same intention, the same level of compassion, especially after going out there and seeing it.
00:25:17.599 --> 00:25:20.960
Um would it have been the same without seeing it?
00:25:21.039 --> 00:25:26.160
I don't know, probably, because you know, this is a caring community.
00:25:27.519 --> 00:25:30.400
But uh I don't know.
00:25:30.559 --> 00:25:36.400
After seeing it, I just felt like we all really came together and realized something's definitely gotta be done.
00:25:36.559 --> 00:25:36.880
Yeah.
00:25:37.200 --> 00:25:41.200
Um so I'm glad that we all chipped in and got in there.
00:25:41.359 --> 00:25:46.079
Anyone else want to speak about maybe you know, a year later?
00:25:46.480 --> 00:25:51.200
I feel like another place um that looks completely different is Levi Jackson Park.
00:25:51.440 --> 00:26:05.680
Like whenever you first enter it, whenever you first enter it, um, like the the pond is in the mid is in the front, and like all of that used to be woods, and it's still not cleaned up.
00:26:05.759 --> 00:26:12.079
Like there's still a bunch of trees down over there, like it's not being mean, Levi Jackson, but it looks ugly.
00:26:12.319 --> 00:26:13.119
It's not them.
00:26:13.519 --> 00:26:17.599
Um I was over there for a field trip just a couple weeks ago.
00:26:18.000 --> 00:26:19.039
So you you know what I'm talking about?
00:26:19.279 --> 00:26:20.000
Yeah, I've seen it.
00:26:20.160 --> 00:26:29.920
It just looks completely different, and another thing that happened is um treetop completely got torn down, which was like a zip line in place, and they have that in the pool.
00:26:30.079 --> 00:26:35.680
The pool wasn't touched, but they they completely had a shut down uh treetop, so that's not there anymore.
00:26:35.920 --> 00:26:39.039
Well, if you've seen treetop, you wouldn't want to go on it.
00:26:39.119 --> 00:26:40.160
I can tell you that right now.
00:26:40.480 --> 00:26:41.839
That's gonna be completely unsafe.
00:26:42.079 --> 00:26:49.519
Yeah, it's it is completely like tore apart like over half the park, and that's like the main park here in the county.
00:26:49.599 --> 00:26:53.920
So well, that part of the park that you're talking about is now the city.
00:26:54.079 --> 00:26:54.720
Yeah.
00:26:55.039 --> 00:26:58.799
And it's their responsibility to get it cleaned up.
00:26:58.880 --> 00:27:00.240
Yeah, it hasn't happened yet.
00:27:00.480 --> 00:27:01.039
It looks really bad.
00:27:01.119 --> 00:27:02.960
You're talking about like the loop to go up the hill to leave the phone.
00:27:03.119 --> 00:27:08.640
Yeah, like it's it looks like it's where the pond is, like literally like all the trees is like in the parking lot still.
00:27:08.799 --> 00:27:10.640
You can there ain't even no ducks to feed.
00:27:11.119 --> 00:27:14.400
It's just crazy to look through there, and all that's just cleared and gone.
00:27:14.480 --> 00:27:17.119
Like by the way, John Hall is back with us.
00:27:17.279 --> 00:27:18.640
He's back from sleeping in the day.
00:27:30.720 --> 00:27:36.640
Yeah, um well, we've talked about basically the day of, day after, few days after.
00:27:36.799 --> 00:27:43.599
We talked about yesterday and things that happened there, but now we're on like um one year later.
00:27:44.000 --> 00:27:46.400
So is there anything that stands out to you, John?
00:27:46.720 --> 00:27:54.319
That just the crazy amount of how fast everybody has actually came together and rebuilt everything.
00:27:54.640 --> 00:28:04.480
Um, I mean, because they even said in that meeting that we were at that you know, people were looking at years before being able to rebuild, and they've done it in months.
00:28:04.799 --> 00:28:07.039
Like just everybody came together.
00:28:07.119 --> 00:28:12.000
So it's just really it kind of warms the old heart to see, I guess.
00:28:12.319 --> 00:28:28.480
Um, you know, I had a lot of friends that lived out there, lost everything, but I mean they're and and again, I'm not so happy with a lot of people because of like I have friends that got paid out and then instantly got dropped from their insurance.
00:28:29.519 --> 00:28:31.599
And happened with several people.
00:28:31.920 --> 00:28:36.640
So the insurance side of thing has it's actually blown my mind.
00:28:36.799 --> 00:28:37.119
Yeah.
00:28:37.680 --> 00:28:38.559
Not in a good way.
00:28:38.799 --> 00:28:41.039
I've had to fight with my insurance.
00:28:41.200 --> 00:28:41.519
Yeah.
00:28:41.920 --> 00:28:49.519
And my windows, the seals were sucked out, and they just would not pay for those windows.
00:28:49.839 --> 00:28:51.440
Insurance is such a scam.
00:28:51.519 --> 00:28:53.839
You pay so much, and it literally is.
00:28:53.920 --> 00:28:56.559
It's the one of the biggest scams in America, in my opinion.
00:28:56.799 --> 00:29:04.240
You can look at the two windows on the side of the house, um, and they are like bowed out, like they were being sucked out.
00:29:04.400 --> 00:29:04.960
Yeah.
00:29:05.440 --> 00:29:08.640
So I I need new windows, I just gonna have to pay for them, I guess.
00:29:08.720 --> 00:29:10.799
But that's another thing I wanted to tell you.
00:29:10.960 --> 00:29:16.960
I found out today my contractor called, and it's time to settle up with him because he's finished.
00:29:17.279 --> 00:29:23.680
And uh he was very honest and really did us right.
00:29:24.799 --> 00:29:33.759
He went through and he said, I took off all the stuff that it was paying me for that we did not do, and he named all these things.
00:29:34.319 --> 00:29:41.359
He said, I didn't charge you as much for the garage door as it should have been, which we got an upgraded garage door put on.
00:29:42.240 --> 00:29:52.720
And uh he said, uh I know we put the screen door on for you, and you asked us to, and we're just gonna charge you a hundred dollars for that.
00:29:52.880 --> 00:30:00.960
And it was about probably five or six thousand dollars less than what the insurance gave us to give him.
00:30:01.039 --> 00:30:07.519
So that puts me five or six thousand dollars positive towards the new Windows.
00:30:08.000 --> 00:30:09.599
So yay, equity.
00:30:10.000 --> 00:30:14.160
Yeah, so it actually helped us out, and his name is Tony Robinson.
00:30:14.240 --> 00:30:16.000
I don't want to go without saying his name.
00:30:16.480 --> 00:30:18.240
He's a contractor out of Lexington.
00:30:18.400 --> 00:30:25.039
I can't remember what his uh company is called, but it's Tony Robinson out of Lexington, and he really did us right.
00:30:25.119 --> 00:30:28.640
So I just wanted to put his name out there and thank him as well.
00:30:29.519 --> 00:30:33.839
But I'll tell you a couple other things, too, that I don't understand with the insurance.
00:30:33.920 --> 00:30:37.920
Yesterday I was talking to a victim who actually goes to our church.
00:30:38.160 --> 00:30:45.839
I won't mention his name, but he had uh applied for FEMA, which I applied for that too, and I was quickly denied.
00:30:46.079 --> 00:30:52.000
Yeah, but he applied for FEMA, and they told him, Well, you can't double dip.
00:30:53.039 --> 00:30:57.039
They asked him if he had insurance, he said yes, and they said, Well, you can't double dip.
00:30:57.200 --> 00:31:03.200
And he was like, I'm not trying to double dip, I just want to see if I qualify for anything.
00:31:03.519 --> 00:31:10.559
Well, turns out he gets$42,000 from FEMA, even though he had insurance.
00:31:11.279 --> 00:31:12.640
Well, this same person.
00:31:13.039 --> 00:31:14.880
But you know, FEMA's another scam.
00:31:15.519 --> 00:31:22.559
It must be because this same person has a neighbor whose house blew into his front yard.
00:31:22.960 --> 00:31:26.000
Their whole house picked up and moved into his front yard.
00:31:26.160 --> 00:31:27.759
Well, she didn't have insurance.
00:31:28.000 --> 00:31:30.000
Guess how much FEMA she got?
00:31:30.799 --> 00:31:31.279
None.
00:31:31.519 --> 00:31:32.079
Zero.
00:31:32.319 --> 00:31:32.640
Wow.
00:31:32.799 --> 00:31:35.519
That makes absolutely no sense at all.
00:31:36.000 --> 00:31:39.359
The one that had the insurance got the total amount.
00:31:39.599 --> 00:31:42.640
The one that had no insurance got nothing.
00:31:42.960 --> 00:31:46.880
So she's just stuck with the whole, she's lost everything.
00:31:48.319 --> 00:31:50.480
Yeah, and I and I know the person you're talking about.
00:31:50.559 --> 00:32:12.079
That that was one of the one of the people I interviewed for the book, and and uh it was it was a problem with their deed because of the way that they had the property, their mother had given them the property, and because of the way she'd set up the deed, they couldn't get insurance, and they were in the process of getting insurance, getting the deed corrected so they could get insurance, but the tornado hit before they got the deed corrected.
00:32:12.160 --> 00:32:15.200
So it wasn't someone who just said, well, I'm not gonna take out insurance.
00:32:15.440 --> 00:32:17.519
That wasn't the issue, they just couldn't get it.
00:32:17.839 --> 00:32:18.480
Yeah.
00:32:19.359 --> 00:32:20.960
Anyone else want to?
00:32:21.759 --> 00:32:26.960
I I would like to, while somebody else thinks of something to say, because somebody else needs to talk.
00:32:27.039 --> 00:32:29.839
There's like eight people over here, only two people said something.
00:32:30.160 --> 00:32:35.440
But anyways, um, I would I would like to say a couple things.
00:32:35.599 --> 00:32:37.599
Number one, John Hall said this one time.
00:32:37.680 --> 00:32:49.039
I don't know if it was on this show or if it was like just to us, but um, it was really cool the togetherness of not just the youth group, but just the the church as a body of Heart Baptists.
00:32:49.200 --> 00:33:02.559
Like uh the reason I mentioned John Hall is because he said like there were people that he didn't know yet at this church that he got to talk to and get close with because of the tornado and the relief system that we were running.
00:33:02.880 --> 00:33:05.359
It was really inspiring to see.
00:33:05.440 --> 00:33:09.839
Um, and again, the tornado is not a good thing um at all.
00:33:10.000 --> 00:33:17.200
You know, people lost lives and lost um everything they had, but good things can come from unfortunate circumstances, and I think that's one of them.
00:33:17.279 --> 00:33:28.079
And another thing, like again, just touching on the togetherness of everything, like uh Jesse mentioned how much closer we were because of it, and you know, that's very true.
00:33:28.240 --> 00:33:46.559
And I just I I catch myself, and you know, like I don't want this to come out the wrong way, but I just I catch myself like looking back on that time um fondly um because of helping people and all the good memories that we all made.
00:33:47.200 --> 00:33:57.359
So, you know, I don't want that to come out as I look back at such a time of um terror, I don't know, for lack of a better term, terribleness and horror for some people fondly.
00:33:57.440 --> 00:34:11.360
I don't want that to come out uh the wrong way because of course I feel for all those people and I can't imagine I can't even begin to imagine what they have gone through and continue to go through, and our prayers are with them and uh we will we will always extend a helping hand.
00:34:11.599 --> 00:34:17.360
But you know, I just I look back at those memories like just like it was it was such a nice time.
00:34:17.519 --> 00:34:23.199
Like I remember I probably stayed at Cameron's house like between five and seven days in a row.
00:34:23.360 --> 00:34:33.519
Uh we're just you know, we would literally work here, get done, go eat, play video games, go to bed, and then come back the next day and work more.
00:34:33.599 --> 00:34:40.719
And it was, you know, just being so close with everybody and every single person was doing whatever they could, you know, to brag on Hannah.
00:34:40.800 --> 00:34:54.079
She was like a month removed from surgery, and she was here on a walker waving a sign around, um, doing doing whatever she could to assist and aid, you know, even though the longest bone in her body had been broken like a month ago.
00:34:54.159 --> 00:34:55.519
So, you know, I admire her for that.
00:34:55.599 --> 00:34:58.800
And I admire everybody just for putting their best foot forward.
00:34:59.039 --> 00:35:14.000
And I just think um that really um one of the quotes that was said in the this the service yesterday was, you know, I'm paraphrasing, but you know, the the the bad things that happen bring the best people out of out of this town.
00:35:14.079 --> 00:35:15.840
And I I think that was clearly shown.
00:35:15.920 --> 00:35:22.559
Like that's the worst thing this town's ever been through in my lifetime, and people really showed their best foot forward.
00:35:22.639 --> 00:35:29.519
And you know, again, I I look back at that fondly because there was actually surgery buddies at that time.
00:35:29.760 --> 00:35:32.960
I was about two weeks out of my stomach surgery at that, and just yeah, yeah.
00:35:34.239 --> 00:35:37.039
It was literally glued together out here lifting cases of water.
00:35:37.199 --> 00:35:37.519
Yeah.
00:35:38.079 --> 00:35:41.280
I'm pretty sure I was like three weeks post-op.
00:35:42.239 --> 00:35:45.440
And I definitely was not supposed to be out of the house.
00:35:45.679 --> 00:35:52.639
I was about two weeks because I just had got hit in that car wreck and tolled like two days before, and I just had got that rental car.
00:35:52.880 --> 00:35:58.000
I remember whoever got the rental car because that thing's got like 30 tires of plug tires.
00:35:58.320 --> 00:36:01.519
I remember I'm sure they understand what all it had been through.
00:36:01.760 --> 00:36:03.679
I remember charging my phone in that rental car.
00:36:04.000 --> 00:36:05.440
It saved my phone a couple days.
00:36:05.519 --> 00:36:07.440
I charged my phone in that car when it was about to die.
00:36:07.599 --> 00:36:08.800
Nobody else had a charger.
00:36:09.039 --> 00:36:11.840
Jason said that was the best use of a rental car he ever saw.
00:36:12.079 --> 00:36:12.719
Yeah, it was.
00:36:13.199 --> 00:36:14.480
I used a burgeon charger.
00:36:14.719 --> 00:36:17.039
We went to the hospital that night.
00:36:17.599 --> 00:36:19.199
There was trees, I just drove through them.
00:36:20.480 --> 00:36:24.559
Chargers, y'all remember uh that was one of the biggest requests we had at first.
00:36:24.719 --> 00:36:25.199
Yeah, five.
00:36:25.440 --> 00:36:26.719
Y'all have any chargers?
00:36:26.960 --> 00:36:31.119
Yeah, and then somebody brought in like a multitude of chargers.
00:36:31.360 --> 00:36:39.440
I remember tarps going out like hot cakes because there was a second follow-up storm, not as severe, but uh there was more rain and stuff coming, yeah.
00:36:39.599 --> 00:36:44.239
Yeah, people were trying to tarp over their houses to recover any belongings that were at risk of changing.
00:36:44.480 --> 00:36:45.519
And where were we?
00:36:46.400 --> 00:36:47.440
Right here, sheltered up.
00:36:47.679 --> 00:36:49.280
Right in their backyard, yeah.
00:36:49.760 --> 00:36:55.440
Because uh we've been through it the first time and we weren't going to mess around with a second time.
00:36:55.679 --> 00:36:56.000
No.
00:36:56.239 --> 00:37:04.239
Speaking of, how many of you all like every time a storm starts up brewing, you get kind of nervous?
00:37:04.480 --> 00:37:04.880
Anybody?
00:37:05.119 --> 00:37:08.320
We had the tornado warning like a couple weeks ago, if you remember.
00:37:08.880 --> 00:37:14.960
Well, I will say I do have someone here that helps me know whenever there's a storm coming.
00:37:15.119 --> 00:37:16.320
Her name's Madison.
00:37:16.559 --> 00:37:20.400
She's got a$10 weather app, and it's pretty good.
00:37:20.559 --> 00:37:21.199
It's pretty good.
00:37:21.360 --> 00:37:22.000
Yeah, it is good.
00:37:22.079 --> 00:37:26.639
The night of the tornado, I bought uh the fancy app you see all those meteorologists use.
00:37:26.880 --> 00:37:28.079
$10, by the way.
00:37:28.159 --> 00:37:28.960
And I still use it.
00:37:29.039 --> 00:37:34.639
I actually have screenshots of the tornado symbol going across the exact path of where it hit.
00:37:34.880 --> 00:37:35.199
Huh.
00:37:35.440 --> 00:37:37.199
And I still use it all the time.
00:37:37.440 --> 00:37:38.559
Radar scope.
00:37:38.800 --> 00:37:39.679
Shout them out.
00:37:39.920 --> 00:37:50.800
Well, I didn't know there was an app like that, but I'm telling you, my just regular Apple emergency thing went off that night and told me exactly where it was, and I knew to get out.
00:37:51.119 --> 00:37:54.079
But there's there was a That was me.
00:37:54.320 --> 00:37:58.960
I knew location through the woods, like how close that was, and I was like, all right, now we need to go.
00:37:59.440 --> 00:38:06.559
There was a warning the other day, another one, or it was a chance of, and yeah, like me and my whole family.
00:38:06.639 --> 00:38:10.960
We were one of the ones to come at the church the night of the tornado.
00:38:11.599 --> 00:38:17.119
I think my dad's just kind of been skeptical ever since there's been like a warning or anything.
00:38:17.360 --> 00:38:18.400
Yeah, because he's like me.
00:38:18.559 --> 00:38:20.400
He'll he's not leaving home first a warning.
00:38:20.559 --> 00:38:22.639
Yeah, he was not leave at all.
00:38:23.039 --> 00:38:24.719
I called and told him we were coming up here.
00:38:24.880 --> 00:38:26.320
You know, we're gonna open the church up.
00:38:26.480 --> 00:38:28.639
I will be alright, we'll just ride it out here.
00:38:28.880 --> 00:38:32.880
I said that too until they said where it was in Mount Victory, and I was like, yeah, it's so close.
00:38:33.199 --> 00:38:35.280
It was within 10 minutes they were pulling up.
00:38:35.519 --> 00:38:37.519
Yeah, and the whole family was at church.
00:38:37.760 --> 00:38:49.440
But I remember not too long ago we came to the church, it was just us, and then I know some of the neighbors uh down the street came also because it was kind of getting bad that night, and I was kind of nervous.
00:38:49.519 --> 00:38:51.280
I my veins were shot up.
00:38:51.360 --> 00:38:54.719
I even texted Kendra and asked her if she was coming and stuff.
00:38:54.800 --> 00:38:56.960
She said no, I think we're just gonna wait it out.
00:38:57.119 --> 00:39:01.519
But I do get a little paranoid, especially where it was really close.
00:39:01.840 --> 00:39:05.599
I swear though, it didn't seem like we were here five minutes when the tornado came through.
00:39:05.760 --> 00:39:09.119
I don't know how long we were actually here, but it seemed like it was just so fast after we were here.
00:39:09.360 --> 00:39:12.400
We were here for a while, but we were actually standing outside.
00:39:12.559 --> 00:39:13.519
Yeah when we started.
00:39:13.840 --> 00:39:16.320
I remember everybody screaming at me to get inside.
00:39:18.239 --> 00:39:21.679
But I'll never forget the people running for their lives and coming into the church.
00:39:21.920 --> 00:39:24.559
Yeah, I didn't even know about that until yesterday.
00:39:24.800 --> 00:39:28.719
Yeah, because I knew I knew about the whole front end of his car, and it was his mother-in-law's car.
00:39:28.880 --> 00:39:32.159
I think it she he said, My mother-in-law's gonna kill me.
00:39:32.239 --> 00:39:34.000
I was like, I don't think so, man.
00:39:34.159 --> 00:39:36.400
Yeah, you got the babies here, that's what matters.
00:39:36.639 --> 00:39:40.559
Yeah, he was carrying his kids, and they they actually go to church now, our church.
00:39:40.800 --> 00:39:41.119
Here?
00:39:41.280 --> 00:39:42.559
Yeah, that's awesome.
00:39:42.800 --> 00:39:46.320
And uh that's when it started, was the week after that.
00:39:46.559 --> 00:39:50.719
That's but I know we're talking an awful lot about church and everything.
00:39:50.800 --> 00:40:10.880
That's one thing we all have in common sitting here, and you know, it was a big part of what we're talking about, and I do want to mention from my perspective, on that same week when Sunday came around, and we still went ahead and had our Sunday service.
00:40:11.360 --> 00:40:15.760
You know, at first I was like, gosh, I can't believe we're doing this.
00:40:15.920 --> 00:40:24.239
We need to be over there working, but really it made me feel so at peace to go over there and do that little service that we had.
00:40:24.480 --> 00:40:26.800
So I actually with no power.
00:40:26.880 --> 00:40:32.880
Yeah, I was thinking it was completely dark and but it didn't it feel like everybody was just so close, yeah.
00:40:33.280 --> 00:40:35.599
Like it was in the dark, but it was genuine.
00:40:35.840 --> 00:40:51.280
Yeah, we were all over there, we were glad to have it was a time of peace and rest because we had already been going one to two days before that, so everybody was coming to you know, service anyways, and then literally after we closed, everybody just migrated over here and started working.
00:40:51.360 --> 00:40:53.280
Yeah, so it was really cool.
00:40:53.519 --> 00:40:56.719
I just again, I mean, that was people that I may not have ever thought about it.
00:40:56.880 --> 00:40:57.280
Exactly.
00:40:57.440 --> 00:41:05.840
And this this opened that opportunity, and you know, that's that's why I look at it with such fondness, like the togetherness that that brought out of us, you know.
00:41:06.000 --> 00:41:10.639
Again, not taking away from what you know people experience, it's it's awful.
00:41:10.719 --> 00:41:12.719
That's not why I look at it fondly, obviously.
00:41:12.880 --> 00:41:17.679
But it's just um again, good things can definitely come from bad situations.
00:41:17.840 --> 00:41:31.760
And you know, while we're talking about it, like you're mentioning heart, like if anybody that was impacted, you know, listens to this, like we will always have our hand out for you all to come join us for service, or if we can help you guys, like we're right in your backyard.
00:41:31.840 --> 00:41:34.239
We were then and we are now, so yeah.
00:41:34.320 --> 00:41:38.079
We may even still be able to scrounge up some donations around.
00:41:38.559 --> 00:41:45.920
We had water for like 80 years built up downstairs, ended up going through it really quick, but water doesn't last long anymore.
00:41:46.239 --> 00:41:48.000
No, it does not.
00:41:49.039 --> 00:41:54.559
Well, um, Gary, like I said, we're gonna move on to you a little bit.
00:41:54.719 --> 00:41:55.039
Okay.
00:41:55.280 --> 00:42:06.079
Uh Gary is writing a book about the tornado and the relief efforts and about some of the survivors and their stories.
00:42:06.239 --> 00:42:10.800
He's just randomly went around and uh asked for interviews.
00:42:10.960 --> 00:42:14.159
And if people wanted to interview, I how did they contact you on that, Gary?
00:42:14.480 --> 00:42:17.199
Well, I I've been having people reach out through Facebook.
00:42:17.360 --> 00:42:24.960
I mean, I just make a post, and for the most part, then uh they start sharing the post, and and almost everyone knows someone that was impacted.
00:42:25.199 --> 00:42:29.119
And so as they share the post, they see it and they message me back.
00:42:29.199 --> 00:42:34.960
And so far, I've had very few instances where I've actually reached out to people to ask them for an interview.
00:42:35.119 --> 00:42:39.760
You know, it's just the only exception to that is a few people who give me names of people they wanted me to contact.
00:42:40.000 --> 00:42:44.239
Otherwise, it's uh it's just been people reaching out to me that say, Hey, I want to be a part of it.
00:42:44.320 --> 00:42:53.599
And and where the idea came from for the book is is my daughter converts videos to digital, and one of her customers sent her a poem and she said, Can you help me get this published?
00:42:53.760 --> 00:42:57.920
I looked at it and I said, Well, you know, uh, that would make a really good first page of a book.
00:42:58.239 --> 00:43:08.079
And that's when I I asked a few people, uh, because I didn't want people to think I was going to exploit them with the book, and and I asked a few people I knew that were victims, do you think I should write this book?
00:43:08.239 --> 00:43:11.679
And as unanimous, they all said, Yeah, go for it, go ahead and write the book.
00:43:12.000 --> 00:43:27.599
And um, so I'm about somewhere around 35 hours into interviews right now, and I've got three more scheduled, and there were a bunch of people that uh I met at the event yesterday, and and I got their numbers and things, and I'm reaching out to them to schedule interviews.
00:43:27.840 --> 00:43:34.639
So um I don't know exactly how many hours I'll end up with, but it's it's at the point where I really need to start writing.
00:43:34.800 --> 00:43:48.000
And so I won't have uh availability much to add too many more victim stories because um the way I'm writing the book is I'll have a prologue on storms in general, and then I'll have a chapter on our book.
00:43:48.159 --> 00:43:53.519
I interviewed Bill Mack, and or um, I mean a chapter on our stor our uh storm, actually.
00:43:53.679 --> 00:44:00.400
And and so there are a lot of unique factors to our storm that don't typically occur, so I'll be writing about the That.
00:44:00.559 --> 00:44:07.599
And then after that, um, the victims' stories will appear in chronological order according to the when the storm hit their house.
00:44:07.920 --> 00:44:13.119
So it'll be kind of hard to put someone in so it's gonna follow a timeline.
00:44:13.280 --> 00:44:14.719
Yeah, it'll follow a timeline, exactly.
00:44:14.800 --> 00:44:17.760
So it's it's gonna be hard to insert someone into that.
00:44:17.920 --> 00:44:24.000
I'll have to, it'll create kind of a problem in writing to have to insert someone into that if I start writing before I get all the stories.
00:44:24.159 --> 00:44:29.199
So um so I'm gonna at some point I'll have to wind it up and say that's that's all I'm gonna have.
00:44:29.360 --> 00:44:42.559
But the stories are, you know, when I first started, I was like, I thought, well, is this gonna be redundant to have, you know, I thought the stories would be kind of like I was in my house, the wind started to blow, it sounded like a train, and then you know, it hit.
00:44:42.960 --> 00:45:00.880
But no, every single story is completely unique, and every single story is very special and and um a lot of emotion, and and you can feel the trauma in the stories as they tell these stories, and it's it's been kind of difficult to listen to these um because every single interview is completely emotional.
00:45:01.039 --> 00:45:05.119
And so it's it's been kind of traumatizing to me to listen to their stories.
00:45:05.199 --> 00:45:08.159
And I can only imagine I'd say a lot of them break down on you, don't they?
00:45:08.400 --> 00:45:09.039
Absolutely, yeah.
00:45:09.119 --> 00:45:10.400
And then I break down with them.
00:45:10.480 --> 00:45:16.800
It's it's hard not to, and and it's um, you know, these people are it's it's not something we think about it.
00:45:16.880 --> 00:45:30.320
If you weren't impacted, you you have a tendency to think about it in in the sense that well, it's a year later, I'm I'm kind of coming out of it, and we see that there are still physical scars in our neighborhoods, and we still see trees down, things like that.
00:45:30.480 --> 00:45:35.119
But but these people will carry scars, emotional scars with them for the rest of their lives.
00:45:35.360 --> 00:45:36.000
Yeah.
00:45:36.480 --> 00:45:41.519
The two stories that were told yesterday by the survivors were very good.
00:45:41.679 --> 00:45:42.320
Yeah.
00:45:42.880 --> 00:45:52.400
Um the one lady bringing up the emergency worker that pulled her out of the rubble and thanking him right there in front of everybody.
00:45:52.480 --> 00:45:54.320
That was that was very nice too.
00:45:54.559 --> 00:45:55.599
Yes, very, very cool.
00:45:55.840 --> 00:46:05.199
It's their job to do that, and I'm sure it didn't, I'm sure it meant something to him, you know, to do it, but he probably just feels like, you know, that's what I'm there to do.
00:46:05.599 --> 00:46:12.400
But it's nice to be recognized sometimes, um, thanked for what you have done, you know.
00:46:13.039 --> 00:46:24.400
Um and actually, just for you all, I've told you multiple times, I'm sure, but you know, I've been thanked about what we did during that time many times.
00:46:24.639 --> 00:46:28.800
And so that makes me feel pretty good that you know we made a difference.
00:46:29.280 --> 00:46:30.559
That's what it's really all about.
00:46:30.719 --> 00:46:38.719
You know, we're not here to try to just snub everybody and say, well, missed my house, you know.
00:46:38.960 --> 00:46:47.920
We're here to try to make everybody comfortable, try to make everybody um have an easier time getting through all this.
00:46:48.880 --> 00:46:51.039
Do you have any uh Gary?
00:46:51.280 --> 00:46:53.760
Do you have any maybe like one story you can share of something?
00:46:54.000 --> 00:46:55.199
Yeah, I mean, I I've got a few.
00:46:56.719 --> 00:46:58.079
Yeah, there's there's a few.
00:46:58.159 --> 00:47:06.480
There's one in particular that kind of stood out to me that um, you know, because you may recall that there were actually three tornado warnings that night.
00:47:06.639 --> 00:47:10.880
There was the there was the major one that hit first, and then there were two tornado warnings after that.
00:47:11.119 --> 00:47:14.559
And a lot of these neighborhoods, there was no place to go for shelter.
00:47:14.719 --> 00:47:18.960
You know, their houses were destroyed, and in a lot of cases they didn't even have a car to get in.
00:47:19.119 --> 00:47:23.440
So there's no way to get in out of the rain or in the storm that was in that was coming.
00:47:23.599 --> 00:47:25.760
So they started trying to walk out of the neighborhood.
00:47:25.840 --> 00:47:30.320
I mean, they literally were on foot, crawling across trees and everything, trying to get to a safe place.
00:47:30.400 --> 00:47:35.280
And and a lot of them were going to going from Sunshine Hills over to Wine Pine School.
00:47:35.440 --> 00:47:38.000
And uh because after that, they weren't allowed to be in there.
00:47:38.320 --> 00:47:38.719
Yeah, yeah.
00:47:38.960 --> 00:47:40.480
They were curfewed and put out.
00:47:40.800 --> 00:47:50.320
But but this one particular was was going as as they were going trying to get to shelter, he um they stopped because there was a man that was trapped.
00:47:50.400 --> 00:47:54.800
He had he had things laying on him, and and he waited there with the guy and he kept waking him up.
00:47:54.880 --> 00:48:05.360
He wouldn't let him go to sleep because they were waiting for the MTs to get there, and so he kept waking him up, waking him up, and finally the MT gets there and and um you know the guy goes to sleep.
00:48:05.679 --> 00:48:11.119
And the MT looks at him, kind of shakes, shakes her head, you know, like he's not gonna make it.
00:48:11.360 --> 00:48:13.840
Well, looters, as you know, were a problem.
00:48:13.920 --> 00:48:15.280
Um they were serious problems.
00:48:15.440 --> 00:48:23.360
So this this lady is here at her house, and and you know, of course, we had the people driving by that were taking pictures and just gawking and things like that.
00:48:23.519 --> 00:48:26.800
So this car comes by and it stops.
00:48:27.599 --> 00:48:31.119
And um she just looks at him and says, What?
00:48:31.440 --> 00:48:38.400
And the guy rolls down his window, and it was the guy that was trapped under the debris, and he says, Where's my Pepsi man?
00:48:38.719 --> 00:48:44.400
Because all he remembered is the guy that was there keeping him alive, keeping him awake, worked for Pepsi.
00:48:44.639 --> 00:48:47.599
He didn't remember his name, but he just remembered his he worked at Pepsi.
00:48:47.920 --> 00:48:50.320
But I thought that was a pretty, pretty uh great story.
00:48:51.679 --> 00:48:52.719
Yeah, it was on Sunshine Hills.
00:48:52.880 --> 00:48:53.760
I actually know that Pepsi guy.
00:48:53.920 --> 00:48:54.159
Oh, yeah.
00:48:54.320 --> 00:48:57.599
Did they figure out and took them meals and did they end up meeting the guy?
00:48:57.760 --> 00:48:57.920
Yeah.
00:48:58.079 --> 00:48:58.880
Oh, awesome.
00:48:59.119 --> 00:49:04.480
But but it was just really neat that that he he just he he didn't remember his name, but he worked, remembered he worked at Pepsi.
00:49:04.639 --> 00:49:05.679
I thought that was pretty neat.
00:49:05.760 --> 00:49:10.000
And and um there were a lot of miracles um that took place.
00:49:10.159 --> 00:49:17.280
I mean, I think about the uh the lady that was in the mobile home with her two-year-old.
00:49:17.519 --> 00:49:23.519
And she lost her internet earlier today when the two o'clock storm hit it, took out her internet, so she had no TV either.
00:49:23.599 --> 00:49:31.039
Apparently, she streamed her TV, and she didn't have a cell signal, so people were trying to call her, tell her the storm was coming, but you know, she didn't get the calls.
00:49:31.199 --> 00:49:32.960
And she literally hears the storm.
00:49:33.119 --> 00:49:34.800
She hears it, she knows what it is.
00:49:34.880 --> 00:49:41.920
And her two-year-old's already in bed, and um she starts running to get to her two-year-old.
00:49:42.239 --> 00:49:49.119
It picked up the entire mobile home and tossed it, and so the mobile home's flying through the air, and pieces are flying off of it.
00:49:49.280 --> 00:49:51.920
It drops her out on the road.
00:49:52.079 --> 00:49:56.719
You know, it's it's dark, um, and she just knows that her two-year-old's dead.
00:49:56.880 --> 00:49:58.400
There's no way he survived.
00:49:58.559 --> 00:50:03.599
And through the darkness, somehow she was able to see his face in a pile of debris.
00:50:03.840 --> 00:50:09.679
And then she starts going to him and she hears him cry, but she can literally see the tornado exiting her neighborhood.
00:50:09.760 --> 00:50:17.519
She's dropped out on the road, her two-year-old's on the road with in a pile of debris, and her washer and dryer landed behind her, and her refrigerator landed behind her.
00:50:17.599 --> 00:50:20.480
She's she was that close to getting hit by those large items.
00:50:20.639 --> 00:50:22.719
Yeah, but I mean, it was just a miracle survived.
00:50:22.800 --> 00:50:24.239
Even her little dog survived.
00:50:24.400 --> 00:50:25.280
Everyone survived.
00:50:25.440 --> 00:50:28.719
You know, I never really thought of it until you mentioned it earlier.
00:50:29.039 --> 00:50:36.159
But to go through that in Sunshine Hills, and most of y'all went through Sunshine Hills and know what it looked like.
00:50:36.480 --> 00:50:47.519
Can you imagine living there and going through that and coming out of whatever you were in and seeing everything to try to go to your neighbor's house in the basement or something and nothing be there?
00:50:47.679 --> 00:50:47.920
Yeah.
00:50:48.079 --> 00:50:56.480
I mean that you know as well as I do though, that night you couldn't really see that much good anyway, because we went right by WC's house and it looked fine.
00:50:56.559 --> 00:50:56.960
Yeah.
00:50:57.199 --> 00:50:58.320
And it was not fine.
00:50:58.639 --> 00:51:08.000
No, I mean, you know, one of the things that resonates with me that I kept hearing over and over and over again in multiple stories, and it was just so heartbreaking.
00:51:08.159 --> 00:51:15.199
But you know, these people would their safe place, they come out of their safe place, the storm's over, and they can't really see anything.
00:51:15.280 --> 00:51:16.800
It's dark, all electricity's gone.
00:51:17.039 --> 00:51:17.760
It was dark, dark.
00:51:18.079 --> 00:51:19.119
Oh, yeah, it was very dark.
00:51:19.280 --> 00:51:24.079
But but they kept hearing their neighbors crying for help all through these neighborhoods.
00:51:24.159 --> 00:51:25.679
Their neighbors were crying for help.
00:51:25.760 --> 00:51:26.000
Yeah.
00:51:26.239 --> 00:51:28.159
And you know, they couldn't see them.
00:51:28.320 --> 00:51:33.199
You know, all they could do is try to get to where they heard the cries because they could not see these people.
00:51:33.360 --> 00:51:37.280
And that was and I kept hearing that story over and over again, every story that the people told me.
00:51:37.440 --> 00:51:38.079
Yeah.
00:51:39.199 --> 00:51:43.280
All while trying to watch and not step on powers that were down and everything else.
00:51:43.440 --> 00:51:43.599
Yeah.
00:51:43.840 --> 00:51:58.559
A lot of those people that ended up here, we did have the one family that I told you had wrecked the car, but a lot of those were brought in by people just that were driving driving through trying to find people, and they would just bring them here because they heard we were open.
00:51:59.360 --> 00:52:04.400
So, you know, like he said, they came out and their house and their cars were gone.
00:52:04.480 --> 00:52:04.639
Yeah.
00:52:04.800 --> 00:52:06.559
They had no way to get anywhere.
00:52:07.599 --> 00:52:14.079
There was quite a few of them came back too when we had that little get-together event thing for the neighborhood afterwards.
00:52:14.559 --> 00:52:17.760
That little girl that we took to the hospital that night was back here that day.
00:52:19.679 --> 00:52:20.000
Yeah.
00:52:24.480 --> 00:52:36.320
But the same Pepsi guy I was talking about, um, his mother-in-law told me that, you know, as they're exiting that neighborhood trying to get to a safe place, they found a lot of people that didn't make it.
00:52:36.639 --> 00:52:39.280
You know, and um he was usually the one that found them.
00:52:39.519 --> 00:52:43.199
And and at that time when I interviewed her, she said he he still couldn't talk about it.
00:52:43.360 --> 00:52:46.000
It's so traumatizing to him, he just couldn't talk about it.
00:52:46.239 --> 00:52:56.000
Now they lived directly across from the house where the guy was arguing with the other guy and wanted to bring out the gun, and Cameron offered the tarp to him.
00:52:56.159 --> 00:52:56.400
Yeah.
00:52:56.559 --> 00:52:58.320
They lived directly across from them.
00:52:58.880 --> 00:53:00.559
Cameron actually said that was you.
00:53:00.800 --> 00:53:01.360
It was me.
00:53:01.599 --> 00:53:02.000
Yeah.
00:53:02.880 --> 00:53:03.840
But he was with me.
00:53:04.000 --> 00:53:04.639
Yeah, no, yeah.
00:53:04.719 --> 00:53:05.920
He said he was with you, but he said.
00:53:06.239 --> 00:53:07.440
We were both standing there with tarps.
00:53:07.599 --> 00:53:09.119
I said, Y'all need a tarp?
00:53:10.880 --> 00:53:14.320
Um, yeah, that was an awkward moment.
00:53:15.679 --> 00:53:23.199
But you know, you talk about uh people helping from in the community, people everyone helped, and you know, a lot of people came in from different places.
00:53:23.360 --> 00:53:33.039
But one of the interesting stories I came across was a guy that uh was going to school at Miami, Ohio, uh going to college there, and he saw it and he wanted to come down here and help.
00:53:33.119 --> 00:53:36.159
So he he thought, well, I'll drive down here and I'll help for a day or so.
00:53:36.239 --> 00:53:43.119
And he comes down here, and he at first it took him a while to get attached because uh people thought he was there to loot or something.
00:53:43.199 --> 00:53:45.199
They were kind of distrustful at that point.
00:53:45.519 --> 00:53:48.639
So um, but he finally he finds this woman.
00:53:48.719 --> 00:53:51.440
She was a a lady in her 50s.
00:53:51.519 --> 00:53:58.079
Uh, she didn't have anyone there to help her, and he he starts to help her, whatever she needs.
00:53:58.239 --> 00:54:09.840
If it's to go to the bank, if it's to uh to move things, but he ends it, he ends up coming back for two weeks helping that lady every single day for two weeks.
00:54:10.880 --> 00:54:11.760
That's pretty good.
00:54:13.039 --> 00:54:21.760
I'm just amazed at how everybody came together and just if you had a talent or a skill, you were there to use it.
00:54:22.559 --> 00:54:23.599
That's exactly right.
00:54:23.840 --> 00:54:34.480
And I said talent because I I think I forget to mention him all the time, but this boy I had when I did my student teaching out at South Laurel High School called me.
00:54:34.719 --> 00:54:43.039
His name's Jason Johnson, and he said, you know, I got a bunch of buddies that plays instruments, we all play bluegrass.
00:54:43.440 --> 00:54:48.960
You know, would what would you think about us coming up here and just playing some music, trying to raise some spirits?
00:54:49.119 --> 00:54:50.639
That was his exact words.
00:54:50.960 --> 00:54:54.719
I was like, come on, yeah, it was nice, come on up.
00:54:55.199 --> 00:54:56.960
They played Continai Joe too.
00:54:57.039 --> 00:54:58.000
I asked them to.
00:54:58.239 --> 00:55:04.239
Yeah, but their version of Cottonai Joe is the actual bluegrass version, and you were looking for the dance song.
00:55:04.400 --> 00:55:06.239
Yeah, I had no idea what they were playing.
00:55:06.559 --> 00:55:09.119
Um I just started cluffing.
00:55:09.280 --> 00:55:10.639
But I don't know if y'all know this or not.
00:55:10.800 --> 00:55:12.480
Yes, he knew all them people.
00:55:12.639 --> 00:55:20.079
Yes, they are very talented musicians, but those had though that group had never played together before.
00:55:20.639 --> 00:55:22.480
They knew each other, but they hadn't played together.
00:55:22.639 --> 00:55:25.599
They knew each other, they knew each other, they knew they could play.
00:55:25.840 --> 00:55:37.760
Of course, bluegrass is kind of a tight knit community, and there's not a whole lot of bluegrass songs, so most people know most of the songs, and they just came in there and started playing.
00:55:38.079 --> 00:55:38.559
Heck yeah.
00:55:38.800 --> 00:55:43.519
I thought that was pretty cool because they sounded like a bluegrass band that had been together for years.
00:55:43.760 --> 00:55:44.960
Oh, heck yeah.
00:55:45.840 --> 00:55:50.480
Another person we keep we never think to thank would be uh out of Corbin.
00:55:50.880 --> 00:56:01.280
You know, the guy the iceman came up and he brought the ice out of Corbin, he brought bags of ice, he brought a whole big uh container and just left it here and filled it up for us all the time.
00:56:02.159 --> 00:56:04.320
So we had free ice all the time.
00:56:06.159 --> 00:56:07.519
Gotta love the ice, man.
00:56:08.000 --> 00:56:08.639
Yeah.
00:56:10.159 --> 00:56:11.920
Ice man was an important part.
00:56:13.280 --> 00:56:16.800
It was Leo, was you even there?
00:56:20.239 --> 00:56:22.159
Yeah, he was there for part of it, weren't you?
00:56:22.400 --> 00:56:23.039
Yeah, I don't know.
00:56:24.000 --> 00:56:25.679
He was there for the smoke baloney.
00:56:27.199 --> 00:56:28.400
How do you know?
00:56:29.119 --> 00:56:31.039
I was there for the smoke baloney, too.
00:56:31.199 --> 00:56:31.760
Yeah.
00:56:32.400 --> 00:56:36.960
Well, does anybody else have anything else they'd like to mention before we stop?
00:56:38.480 --> 00:56:57.360
I'd just like to further reiterate on Max's point that there's it's like looking back on it now that we're a year out, um there's there's definitely a fondness to it, as weird as that sounds, but as he explained, like the closeness of the relationships that it brought us was just something I never imagined.
00:56:57.440 --> 00:57:06.719
Like I had people that we that I had said five sentences to riding in riding in the truck with me, going out taking stuff to people.
00:57:06.960 --> 00:57:14.320
And I developed relationships with those people and got got close with them and still am, and that's something that I'm extremely thankful for.
00:57:14.480 --> 00:57:23.119
And just like Max had said, um he stayed my parents actually left on vacation the night before it hit and so I was there by myself.
00:57:23.360 --> 00:57:25.360
And Max came over and stayed.
00:57:25.840 --> 00:57:32.079
It was probably at least six days in a row and it it was I mean, he just left his stuff there, like yeah.
00:57:32.480 --> 00:57:34.960
We just knew like coming back tonight.
00:57:35.280 --> 00:57:38.639
We we go to sleep, wake up, come back here.
00:57:38.960 --> 00:57:40.320
It was all kind of just one big day.
00:57:40.480 --> 00:57:40.639
Yeah.
00:57:43.280 --> 00:57:44.480
No week was just a day.
00:57:44.800 --> 00:57:57.039
And like my parents weren't home, so I mean I just had to go back and take the dogs out, but I'd say me and him were here for twelve hours, thirteen, we go back, eat, sleep, come back and do it again the next day.
00:57:57.280 --> 00:57:58.719
They were about thirteen hour days.
00:57:58.880 --> 00:58:02.559
I can just with no I mean, we just there wasn't any thinking about it.
00:58:02.639 --> 00:58:04.000
It was that's where you're going.
00:58:06.000 --> 00:58:07.679
Like eight and a half or like nine at night.
00:58:08.079 --> 00:58:12.719
Every afterwards we'd be here organizing and trying to straighten up and clean some too for the next day.
00:58:12.800 --> 00:58:15.599
So and I think that's uh that's one thing.
00:58:15.679 --> 00:58:29.039
And then another was um at the memorial yesterday they had uh picture on the back of all the crosses of the people that had passed away, and in the back you can see uh the destruction that it had caused.
00:58:29.199 --> 00:58:39.360
And driving back through like a week or two ago, there's still some of that stuff there, but you just wouldn't believe like the amount of reconstruction and cleaning up that's been done.
00:58:39.440 --> 00:58:41.199
It doesn't even look like the same place.
00:58:41.679 --> 00:58:45.280
And I think that just goes to show how stronger community is.
00:58:50.079 --> 00:58:51.360
Anyone else?
00:58:53.920 --> 00:58:55.679
Parker's got something to say.
00:58:56.000 --> 00:58:57.760
Yeah, Parker and Madison are here.
00:58:57.920 --> 00:59:00.079
We're not really make making all that up.
00:59:00.239 --> 00:59:04.000
They are here, they're just being very quiet today for some odd reason.
00:59:04.880 --> 00:59:05.920
I talked about my$10.
00:59:07.119 --> 00:59:07.440
Oh, that's right.
00:59:07.519 --> 00:59:08.000
The weather appears.
00:59:11.199 --> 00:59:11.519
Yeah.
00:59:12.079 --> 00:59:13.039
Confirmed, Parker is here.
00:59:22.159 --> 00:59:24.000
You probably don't even got the weather app on your phone.
00:59:24.079 --> 00:59:25.440
No, I can't, honestly.
00:59:26.239 --> 00:59:27.760
And that's why you get hit by a tornado.
00:59:28.000 --> 00:59:29.519
Leva, you're gonna school tomorrow.
00:59:31.280 --> 00:59:32.719
I got two dollars and you don't.
00:59:32.880 --> 00:59:34.960
Leva, when's your mommy picking you up?
00:59:36.239 --> 00:59:37.920
Snap, over there, rolling.
00:59:39.360 --> 00:59:40.320
How's your mama now?
00:59:40.559 --> 00:59:42.960
It's starting to become a roast session here.
00:59:43.440 --> 00:59:45.360
Yeah, is Jesse gonna sing us out?
00:59:45.599 --> 00:59:47.679
I do want to share a verse or two.
00:59:47.920 --> 00:59:51.039
One, uh, kind of goes along with what we've been talking about.
00:59:51.119 --> 00:59:52.480
It's Galatians 6.2.
00:59:53.039 --> 00:59:56.880
Bear one another's burdens and so fulfill the law of Christ.
00:59:57.199 --> 01:00:01.039
And I feel like that's what we did was we beared each other's burdens.
01:00:01.119 --> 01:00:04.079
And it wasn't just out in the community, it was here as well.
01:00:04.480 --> 01:00:10.239
Um, you know, tensions weren't just high in the tornado victim area.
01:00:10.480 --> 01:00:13.599
Tensions were high right here at the church.
01:00:13.920 --> 01:00:18.239
Um, you know, people were saying things that they probably never would have said.
01:00:18.800 --> 01:00:20.800
They were getting, you know, upset.
01:00:21.119 --> 01:00:22.719
Oh, I remember letting stuff fly.
01:00:23.039 --> 01:00:28.639
Yeah, I mean, it just uh I've never seen anything like it.
01:00:28.880 --> 01:00:33.519
But the compassion and love was much greater than that.
01:00:34.159 --> 01:00:46.400
You know, I I think it uh we really stood out as a church, we really stood out as Christians and um as just a community as a whole.
01:00:48.400 --> 01:00:52.480
All right, looks like this is gonna be the last chance for anybody to maybe see.
01:01:02.000 --> 01:01:03.760
I remember something.
01:01:04.320 --> 01:01:12.960
There's this one day Parker went out, and there's this little old lady that came up to him uh thanking him because he had such big, strong muscles, is what she said.
01:01:13.360 --> 01:01:14.000
He still does.
01:01:14.159 --> 01:01:14.639
Is this true?
01:01:14.800 --> 01:01:15.119
Yeah.
01:01:15.280 --> 01:01:16.159
You remember Parker?
01:01:16.320 --> 01:01:16.960
I know what's true.
01:01:17.039 --> 01:01:18.000
I think I didn't hear that.
01:01:18.239 --> 01:01:18.880
Yeah.
01:01:20.639 --> 01:01:22.960
Did anybody at least call him Hercules?
01:01:25.119 --> 01:01:27.840
He cuts grass, by the way, if you need your yard mode.
01:01:28.239 --> 01:01:30.320
If you're in London, he does real good stripes.
01:01:30.400 --> 01:01:31.840
He'll come to Corbin, won't you?
01:01:32.239 --> 01:01:32.960
I'll go anywhere.
01:01:33.119 --> 01:01:34.159
We need money's right.
01:01:35.119 --> 01:01:38.719
Well, you better watch it because we have listeners in all across the world.
01:01:38.800 --> 01:01:40.719
I mean, 19 different countries.
01:01:48.079 --> 01:01:51.679
If the numbers right, he'll sail across the sea with a lot more keyboard.
01:01:53.039 --> 01:01:54.800
He's gonna drive to Australia.
01:01:57.280 --> 01:01:59.519
Yeah, I'm sure uh they got a bridge now.
01:02:00.000 --> 01:02:00.639
Oh yeah?
01:02:02.079 --> 01:02:13.840
I'm sure most of our listeners have across the world have just really listened to the Bigfoot episode, but still uh it's good to think that people all over the world are listening to you anyway.
01:02:14.480 --> 01:02:14.960
Oh yeah.
01:02:15.360 --> 01:02:18.800
Um well, I guess John, you have anything to say since you came in late?
01:02:18.960 --> 01:02:21.440
No, I missed it all, so we'll just keep it that way.
01:02:21.679 --> 01:02:30.480
Well, I will say that we're gonna have some more recordings coming very soon, and we're since it's the the school year's about to end up.
01:02:30.719 --> 01:02:31.840
Yeah, we're gonna pick it up some.
01:02:32.079 --> 01:02:44.719
John finally decided to get a job, but uh with the school year ending up and everything, we might have a little more time to be able to record some sessions and maybe talk to some people.
01:02:45.119 --> 01:02:46.800
Thank you for having us.
01:02:47.360 --> 01:02:48.719
Thank you, John, and thank you, John.
01:02:48.960 --> 01:02:49.760
Yeah, thank you very much.
01:02:50.079 --> 01:02:50.800
Thank you all for coming on.
01:02:51.039 --> 01:02:51.760
Thanks, John Square.
01:02:52.000 --> 01:02:52.320
Thank you, John.
01:02:53.280 --> 01:02:53.920
Yes, I like that.
01:02:54.079 --> 01:02:54.480
Thank you, John.
01:02:54.719 --> 01:02:55.360
Thank you, Gary.
01:02:56.079 --> 01:02:57.360
Kicking the dog.
01:02:58.559 --> 01:03:01.280
Turn up the top, turn up the stage.
01:03:25.599 --> 01:03:34.719
This episode, I would like to say, is it's not sponsored by anybody, but I did find out Tony Robinson's company number and it's our company name and it's R C R S construction.
01:03:34.960 --> 01:03:36.239
R C R S construction.
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I don't like to see that.