Alabama Baptist Disaster Relief teams are hard at work in Selmer, Tennessee, and in Alabama’s Colbert and Lauderdale counties following a devastating set of storms that moved across the Midwest and the South in the past week.

In Selmer, an EF-3 tornado killed five area residents and destroyed whole neighborhoods on April 3, according to David Hendon, the white hat leader on site for ABDR.

“It was just really, really bad,” he said.

But Hendon is thankful the number isn’t higher. He said he’s already talked with several area homeowners who have amazing stories of how they were saved in the storm.

“One man and his wife and dog were hunkered down, and the house just blew away around them and sucked their dog away from them,” he said. “His wife had to have a few stitches, and he didn’t have a scratch. He attributes living through that to God — he says God protected them.”

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This article was originally published at TheAlabamaBaptist.org.