Monday, September 12, 2005

Hurricane force winds over 100 miles away


Can you find the house here?


The city of Laurel, MS is about 100 miles from the coast. As you can see the winds here were powerful. At one point they had 120 mph sustained winds for 2 minutes straight and gusts of 135 mph.
There are very few trees standing and we were there 12 days after the hurricane. Roads are still impassable, power is still not on. Homes are crushed, vehicles demolished. It was a disaster. It was hard to believe that the winds could be that high and yet be so far from the coast. Destruction was everywhere as we drove north to Laurel on Highway 15.
In the midst of the chaos we saw a church serving the community and serving as a distribution center to care for its citizens and neighboring communities.

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