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[__ Prayer __] I can`t reach my parents

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pjt

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I just found out from reading my hometown paper that the whole south side of my hometown was knocked by a tornado and 12 people in the small town are confirmed dead and the hospitals are full of people. I tried to call my elderly parents, but I can`t reach them. I sort of expected that though because the newspaper said the power lines are down. The newspaper said my hometown looks like a "wasteland". My parents live on the Southside that was leveled. I don`t know what to ask to pray since what is done is done other than perhaps pray I can get some information and if my parents are trapped or need help, they will be helped. Thank you.
 
Oh wow..I definitely will be praying! I live in Texas and we just got hit by a tornado too but not as bad as the one you mentioned. Stay strong and stay in prayer. Trust in the Lord! I will be in prayer for your parents.
 
Praying for you pjt...and for an extra measure because it seems as if you've had your more than fair share of natural disasters...:pray
 
Thank you for your prayers. I`m trying to contact anyone I can but can`t get any information other than I heard the street they live on was demolished. I hope that is not true or if it is true they are okay. I also heard the death count went up to 22 people and it is just a town of over 900 people so that`s a lot. It just brings me to tears every time I think about them because I know how scared my mother has always been of tornados. I`m just hoping my parents were together when it hit. I will try calling their mobile phone and some other people again in a few hours when they should be awake.
 
Please let us know when you hear from them. I have prayed for them and you. I realize this sounds like an isolated incident, but wow. :sad How many hits will you need to endure? I'm very sorry, pjt, but I will pray with hope that you do dear from them.
 
Thank you Mike. I`ve been calling all over this "morning" American time, and still I have no answer. But I am starting to see videos and pictures and the latest report I read on my hometown was "it was leveled" and even gory stuff like a "a horse head was decapitated" so it is tough seeing and hearing this stuff. It is one thing to go through a disaster yourself, but I think it is much harder to have your aged parents go through one and you can`t get in touch with them to know they are okay. It is MUCH more difficult. I can`t imagine going to bed tonight not knowing they are okay, yet something tells me I am not going to find out so quickly.

To top this off, I got a call from the school tonight that said there was some radiation in the dust. We had a very big sand storm yesterday that the children had to walk home in (I was on "patrol" duty meaning I have been escorting the first graders in my neighborhood home every day for the month so I was in it too). We came home with dust in our ears, eyes and throats. Anyway, the school told us if our child get sick don`t waste one second, get them to the emergency room right away because it is serious and children are already falling ill. So I hope my neighborhood group of children are okay. Before I took them home, those who had masks I put on them and others I told to cover their faces with hankerchiefs and I tried to shield the ones close to me from the sand. I hope it will be enough, and I hope my children don`t fall ill while I`m trying to locate my parents.

Anyway, I hope to have good news to share soon, and I know I should not worry. Maybe the best thing for me to do is just take a break and pray too which I will do now.
 
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Praying also for you ptj... wow... just looking at those pictures, wow..
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I know, those pictures get to me. It`s hard to stomach when I think of how my parents could be in all that rubble.

I have a little good news though. Earlier I contacted a reporter that covered a story on the aftermath of my hometown and he wrote me back asking for my parents names. I gave their names and address and he promised to "do what he could" in locating them. The Japanese would say I am "wagamama" for doing this-- meaning self centered so I am a little embarrassed, but to redeem myself I did not ask him to search for me. I simply asked if there were any lists of people in the hospital, survivors, etc., and he wrote back volunteering to help me search so I feel a great sense of gratitude and relief. So I think I will stay up tonight waiting for a response. I feel a mixture of relief and nervousness in waiting for an answer. I hope it is good news. But the pictures and scenerio of my hometown remind me of Miyagi with the devestation after the tidal wave and then the mass graves. In my home town, I see pictures of things flattened and they brought in a "mobile mortuary". It is really a grim picture, but I am holding on to hope that my parents are alright.
 
By the way, I think CyberJosh on this forum is from Huntsville, AL so everyone might want to remember him in your prayers too.
 
I praise God, I finally have an answer. My parent`s home was completely destroyed. It was "flattened" as I was told, but by the miracle and grace of God my parents survived. They were covered with rubble but climbed out of it and did not even need to go to the hospital!!! They are staying with a family friend. I still have not been able to speak to them but I know they are okay and that is all that matters right now.
 
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