I hear ya.....I live in Iowa.....we have had our own share of tornados. Nothing like the numbers of tornadoes you have seen this week....but 2 weeks ago the town of Mapleton was hit, half the town was destroyed....that night there were more than 30 tornadoes that touched down in Iowa and Wisconsin.
And in Cedar Rapids and Iowa City they are still repairing flood damage from 2 years ago.
All those who have suffered losses are in my prayers.

I love in Birmingham.

Tuscaloosa was hard hit and my thoughts go out to all there, as well, as the many hit by the tornado here and around Birmingham.

My thoughts and prayers to all of those affected. I'm happy to say the company I work for will match my donation to the cause.

Up North Teresa
who is expecting a few flakes tonite

There are a couple of threads over on the conversations side too, I was looking for Glenda and someone told me that she had posted at KT, and I'm glad to see her post here safely. I understand that Beverly is safe too, but without power, and Jude is also OK.

Everyone in the path of those storms has been in my prayers and will remain there, clean up is going to be a long process. As LindaC said, Iowa is still cleaning up from the catastrophic flooding after 2 years, so I'm sure clean up and rebuilding from this is going to take years, not months.

I'm just glad our friends here are safe and hopefully the storms are over so rebuilding can begin.

Annie

Thanks everyone, for the good wishes for Tuscaloosa.

I've never looked at 'conversations' so I didn't realize that the subject had already been covered there. Sorry if it was an inappropriate post on 'cooking'. Also glad all the forum members are safe.

I've been praying for the poor people that were killed, injured and lost all their possessions in the tornadoes. I've lived through many tornadoes in my lifetime as well as a typhoon and earthquakes when I lived in Japan. I'm one of the fortunate ones that never lost a thing and was never injured. Makes you sympathize even more with the people affected and be thankful for your good fortune.

Will definitely keep everyone in my prayers. If there is ANYTHING I can do to help in nay way please let me know.

Total strangers were lifelines for us and it would be nice to pay it forward.

maxmom, it's not inappropriate, at least in my opinion. I just wanted you to know that we weren't ignoring that part of the country affected by these awful storms. anyone who would complain about something like this being on "discussions" instead of "conversations" is awfully petty, I think.

I know many people never look on conversations, but I put it there because there have been some other threads moved there, so I figured I'd save Tamara the time. (grin)

I sure hope the storms are over now and clean up can kick into high gear....

Annie