I just got back from a week long mission trip down to Mobile, Alabama. Its really screwed up down there. The news doesn't do justice to the devastation done. Entire home were wiped off the face of the earth. Families are living in trailers that aren't large enough to fit a single person. I don't feel like I even picked up a knife to scratch to attempt to scratch the surface of the work that needs to be done there. At the sermon we had at the end of the week the priest told about the women who's home she and her group worked on. She stayed at her home when the hurricane came through. At first it didn't seem like there was a problem. Water trickled under the door, but she just put towels in front of it to stop it. Ten minutes later it was up to ankles. Ten minutes after that her waist. Eventually it was up to her waist. By then she had begun to try and get out. She couldn't get out the window because she had nailed it shut(there had been robberies in her neighborhood recently), and her doors were boarded up. She tryed again and again to break the window. Meanwhile the water rose. Finally, when the water was up to her neck she managed to break the window with a kick. She was terrified to go out the window because she saw entire trees, cars, and houses washing past her. She gathered up her courage and stepped out the window. As she did so she cut her foot to the bone on a protruding piece of glass. She was pulled into the current and floated about two and a half to three miles down the waterway. As she floated she looked behind herself she saw heads bobbing in the water. She saw a women holding onto two labradors. She thought "Their going to die. I probaly will to." As she was going along she saw her church ahead. She grabbed onto the pillars up front and hanged on. They were slippery and the wind was strong so she knew couldn't hang on for long. Some people on the second story of the building saw her and managed to rescue her. A nurse was among the group who rescued her, and she bandaged her foot. The nurse had two labs with her. She was the women who was behind her in the water. Two weeks later they were rescued. This story stuck in my mind, and I've tryed to share it with everyone I meet. The people down there need help. They deserve evey ounce of assisstance that can be given to them.