April's Fury 2011

It's Amazing how fast life can change. We were so thankful our lives, family, homes, and friends were safe after the horrible tornado's that touched so close to us.

Our home in McCalla had minimal damage from earlier storms that morning, and our only downfall was power outage for a week.

My store had structural damage and a busted window. It looks like it may be a lengthy process to fix, but will be a beautiful blessing in the long run.

The Amazing Part--- We opened our store as a 'designated' Red Cross Drop off location.
God worked in AMAZING ways getting our name out.
From ALL over the world, packages were mailed. Hundreds a week came in FULL of items in need!
We were able to deliver these to churches, organizations, Red Cross. One day 2 U-Hauls came Full, and we had to call and get them directed immediately because we didn't have room for all the boxes!

This is My Taylor Bug helping the UPS delivery man help. We became great friends with Fed Ex, USPS, and UPS. They were locals here, and got cold water every delivery!

New York was one of our larger contributors. I have NO idea how they heard of my store, but if residents called looking for a location in our area to help, they were given our store information. Hundreds of donations came from New York. Other locations such as Washington, Kentucky, Nevada, California, Florida, Michigan, South Carolina... the list goes on!

I was SO amazed! I also sent a thank you note to everyone that mailed a package to let them know how much we appreciated there support. God is so good!

We were so blessed to be able to be a hand in the helping efforts to get our town back up and going!