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
Wdbj7s tim saunders is live in evergreen, where the lu students are helping with clean up efforts. Kimberly, these students are part of a group called lu send. The organization just formed earlier this year. Its a way for students to volunteer and help with disasters and humanitarian crisis around the world. This disaster was an opportunity for them to do mission work right in their backyard. Students are clearing debris and helping any way they can here in the community of evergreen, one of the hardest hit parts of appomattox county. Benjamin sisco student just fixing up some of the houses and trying to clear away the damage after the tornado that came through on wednesday. Were just trying to lend a helping hand and be the hands and feet of christ wherever we can be. Just got back from greece, where they were providing aid to middle eastern refugees. Another group will head to flint, michigan this weekend to help people effected by the water crisis in that community. Live in appomatt
Ashes are somewhere out there and she hopes somebody finds them. 3 an all day search turned up bits and pieces of her sons urn. 04 it was an old pooh bear cookie jar that i chose for him. 3 sully mccune louis died from sids seven years ago. Samantha already lost him oncea now this timea 08 its 10 times worse because it makes me feel like i lost him again. The scattered pieces of the urn doesnt mean all is 3 lost. The funeral home says the remains could still be out there. 08 they confirmed to me that its in a bag. It will have his name on the bag and a little disk with numbers on it. 11 standup shes hoping to find the they could be anywhere. So shes asking the community to please keep a lookout. The home is in piecesa but nothing will stop her. Shell keep searching, until someone out there finds her son. 09 it would mean the world. I would give them the biggest hug that i could. Because he was my baby. 3 valerie liveu mccue is really devastated 3 because the urn was at her brothers pla
Water, but what better way to help than open your homeshe put her house on the market two years ago and it has yet to sell. Its fully furnished. And she says its the ideal space for a family with small children. 3 its perfect for a 3 small boy, it was me and my son that lived here and this was his room. Pack says she wants to give them everything they could possibly need. Im actually going to bring my old dishes silverware so they family doesnt have to worry about anythingall that, and the house. Free of charge. She just asks that whoever moves in. Pay the electric bill. Neighbor. Helping neighbor. We want to keep them in the community we dont want them having to go to lynchburg or surrounding areas their home is appomattox. Details on how to get in contact with jessica that information will be on our website wset dot com tonight with this story. Live in appomattox, courtney wheaton, abc 13 news. 3 mark one step in the Recovery Process is getting the Insurance Adjusters out. Allstate s
So they came up with a plan. One person told me they had boxes and boxes of pizzas delievered last night, but there werent a lot of volunteers there to eat it, so a lot of it went to waste. And thats what they dont want. If you want to make a donation of toiletry items or water, you can take it to Liberty Baptist church. They are not accepting clothing donations at this time because they have an entire house filled already. The volunteers at this church say they cant thank the community enough for all of its support in helping the victims. If you know anyone who needs donations, please Contact Evergreen baptist church. Kelsey 3 marshall volunteer we have a surplus of bottled water. We have personal hygiene products, diapers, baby products, wipes, formula. We even have small hand tools if you need that as well. Valerie liveu we have all the Contact Information for the churches and what and how to donate. Its all at wset dotcom. Live in appomattox, valerie bragg, abc 13 news. 3 3 3 3 nor