Sometimes the effort is long, difficult, draining and still takes an unexpected twist at the end.
This week saw a couple of careless injuries in the work place. It saw severe thunderstorms and the threat of tornado. The week gave me the gift to see some fellow travelers from Chattanooga.
Mid-morning I was driving towards a worksite in Pearlington when I got a phone call that the weather radio was posting a severe thunderstorm warning, tornado watch and flash flood warning for the area. We had over 4 inches of rain in a very short time and more was predicted. The ground was fully saturated and water was up onto the road in places.
I rushed around on the back roads of town in my truck dodging potholes and downed limbs, trying to locate and caution our volunteers of the potential danger, all the while watching a dark and angry sky. Everyone relocated to our village and within an hour the rain and wind finally subsided. I heard later on the radio that over in northern Harrison County near Gulfport, a few miles north of my trailer, a tornado reportedly touched down inflicting minor damage.
At the end of the day, after all this chaos, while driving back East from Pearlington to Gulfport whom do I pass on I-10? A church van from Red Bank Baptist Church and a van and trailer from White Oak Baptist Church in Red Bank, TN. I surmise they are surely returning to Chattanooga from a work party in New Orleans.
I was taken by enthusiasm. I waved hello but with the Kentucky plates on my truck and traveling 70 mph, they could only think I am just a fellow Presbyterian traveler. So as I passed I just waved and wondered when I’ll see some of my other friends from Chattanooga.
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