 everybody says you hear a you know the train sound I did not hear that all I had was a very great sky with no rain no wind no nothing no animals nothing I can hear anything and I thought back my head here for intervention of God or through past watching movies I knew I was not a safe situation so literally and my son and wife's constant dad get inside so we ran inside into the bathroom which I knew was our strongest point my son was parked right here my wife was back in here next to the time when I was here my son's closest to the door and I could hear this wind just howling and and just praying to God that it wouldn't go ripped up to the floor that's a thankful bit. We got inside literally 15-20 seconds before we were here in our house and ripped apart. We're here with proof it lasted maybe 20 seconds. That hole was there when I walked in that night. I mean that was a hole up to the sky at that point there where it ripped us out. Then we could smell the gas going apparently two houses down the two stories got demolished and bricks had fallen down the gas meters. My garage door was gone off the door and my wife's car which was on the driveway was tossed three doors down upside down on its hood. Soon after the Christmas tornado hit I began to get text messages and phone calls about church members that had been hit and walking through their homes completely destroyed some just rubble and showing me these little places where they hid and the roof gone to imagine that kind of destruction for the people that I know and love and serve was it's been really hard. One particular family they all went into the closet she said that they all held hands they said the Lord's prayer and then it was over and then her husband walked out to see what had happened and she said that when she came back she knew from the look in his eyes that everything was gone then it was real this time it wasn't just pretend or something that just skipped past them that everything that they had was gone. We moved into different neighborhoods but it was when we got on one street one street where it seemed like every house was devastated and we learned that only four people were still living on that street. Everyone had had to leave one person looked at the sheriff that I wore and had had a United Methodist symbol on it and she reached out she said my family's here and we hugged strangers and yet connected. One block everything is looks normal and it's just devastation at the very next block over those people still need financial help they still need help working with their homes physically but they also need a shoulder to cry on somebody to talk to somebody to help them cope with what they've been through. I'm with First Related United Methodist Church I'm a member here and I'm volunteering at our store is what we call it that we have set up for relief for the victims of the recent tornadoes and reliant garland. We're helping whoever comes and asks for help. These three rooms full of donations that we've received specifically just for this disaster from the community. We have bedding, we have food, we have cleaning supplies, we have shovels and construction type supplies anything that you would need. It's for everybody to come and take and so everybody's welcome to come and get what they need.