A steeple that was perched atop the roof now sets in ruin about a quarter mile away. The churchs brick facade was peeled away. Stained glass windows are mangled and twisted. Just part of your life is gone. All kind of memories here. Theyre gone. Central baptist is an example of both the devastation in appomattox county and the communitys determination to persevere. Members of the Appomattox County High School Football Team showed up at the church early thursday morning to help clean up. All of the kids volunteered and said, coach, come pick us up. Come get us. Where can we meet and help . The team rallied around one of their own. Drew mann, a football player. My mom and dad got married in the church and i grew up here when i was younger. Its devastate to go see what happened to this place. So i need to help out. When they werent cleaning, Football Players held up signs asking for donations to help the community. One corner of the county where wednesdays tornado left a trail of damage.
Our state and country have reached out to help the families affected by wednesdays tornado. Wdbj7s Amanda Kenney is live in appommatox county. Amanda, theres an easy way others can help . Yes, kimberly. Donations can help tremendously. Clean up efforts have been great, but dont forget local leaders are asking everyone to stay out of the impacted areas because they are still unsafe. Many homes has been heavily damaged or destroyed so families are without a place to stay. So, the red cross is collecting financial donations. You can write check to the red cross, and specifiy the appomatox disaster to ensure the money will go towards the victims here. Ive also seen some go fund me pages that have been created to help the tornado. Nonperishable supply donations are being accepted at a couple locations. The appomatox Community Center and libery baptist church. If youre in lynchburg and want to help, you can bring nonperishable food, bottled water, clothing, cleaning supplies to any lynchburg
Fire crews are using everything from chainsaws, extra engines, manpower. Department whether its fighting fire, ems calls, car accidents. Everything in our job is demanding one way or another so, you come to work knowing you could be working all day and all night long. Thats the price we pay for the job we do. All the help they can get. Because theyre trying to clean up the roads as quick as they can work. Crews have been out since 8 am and since we last checked clean up trucks are still working in southwest roanoke. Christina, i understand crews have received a number of work calls. Will these crews plan to continue clearing trees tomorrow . Yes, crews will continue to work into the evening and resume in roanoke, christina craig, wsls10. Danville utility crews have been working all day to restore power to the roughly 750 people in the city who lost power as a result of yesterdays storm. Crews spent much of the day replacing a utility pole in the 3hundred block of kennon road. A tree in
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