In April 2011 we have again partnered with Operation Southern Comfort to rebuild lives in New Orleans. Our group consists of 8 youth and 5 adults. We left Watertown at 4am on a Saturday morning to undertake the 2 day journey. We had an overnight stop at Gateway Baptist Church in Bluff City TN just south of Bristol where we slept (sort of) on the gym floor.
The weather turned to rain around Harrisburg PA. The radar maps looked extremely ominous but we traveled between 2 fronts through much of Virginia until just north of Lexington. Then it really started to lightning in spectacular fashion and pour. We made an earlier than expected stop to see if it would blow over. We got lucky. Later we found out there were tornado watches around us and several people were killed by this front. We drove out of it and things were dry in Bristol although still windy. Dinner was at Sonic and then off to the movies.
Sunday dawned clear and sunny and the wind was gone. Beautiful weather for travel. We were at McDonald's at 6am waiting for them to open. Our journey was unremarkable and we ate lunch at Popeye's.
More details to come.
Awesome> So Glad you are doing well and are safe and sound! The news made history with over 240 tornado's in a few days! God Speed 'YA All!
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