If you have been trying to email or call me and did not get an answer right away, it was because I have been traveling between Richmond and the southern parts of Arkansas on a personal family matter for the past few weeks. 1100 miles one way is no small undertaking. And to do it through tornadoes and flood twice, -- I am glad I am back in Virginia. The first trip was over Easter Holiday, and the second day of my trip home was through the tornadoes in Tennessee and SW Va. Then, a week later, I received news that a loved one had passed away, and I had to make the trip again for the funeral. Areas of Va, Tennessee, Alabama, Mississippi were still damaged by the tornadoes, and areas around Memphis were already flooding from the storms and rains, and some interstates completely closed. New route was plotted, via Chattanooga, all the way down to i_20, then through Louisiana going west to Arkansas. While the sadness of a loved one's passing was in the forefront of our thoughts, all the family members attending had to plot new ways to get back to their home states. We went back through Memphis, because the southern route was flooding, but the main roads to Memphis were open. If we had left a day later then we did, we would have been stuck somewhere in the flooded areas. For the past few days, I have been thinking about all those lives along the Mississippi, the crops of thousands of acres lost to flood waters, the employees in small gas stations and convenience stores , hotels, and other businesses who have lost their livelihoods. I know what that area is like, I Have met many awesome people there over the years. I pray for their lives. Please say a prayer for the people devastated by the storms and floods when you read this message. Many thinks. |
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