Tornado in Nappanee

Danny Here!
Last Thursday night (October 18th) there was a huge set of storms that came through Indiana. The tornado sirens went off at our house, but lucky for us there were no tornados that actually were too close to us. Nappanee, IN was not quite so lucky. They were hit by an F3 almost F4 tornado. Nappanee is not to far from where we live.



My dad (Jim Eggleston) has become really involved with the Red Cross. He has done local fund raising functions, helped out at some house fires, and he travelled to Finely, OH when they had the floods for 2 weeks. When the Tornado hit he was called to Nappanee at Midnight (Thursday night or Friday morning however you want to look at it), to help start up an emergency shelter for people



I let him know on Friday if there was anything I could do to help out I would. On Saturday night dad called and wanted to know if the offer was still good. I said "YEP!" On Sunday morning I headed to Nappanee with him and spent 7AM-2PM on an ERV (Emergency Response Vehicle), these are converted Ambulances. We filled it with food and then took it out and gave food to victims. What was the most amazing, and I had to share on the blog, was the number of volunteers that came out on Sunday. There is a large high school in town. The parking lot was filled with cars, including all over in the grass. These were volunteers from all over who had come to help cleanup. They had to turn people away because they had no more room in the buses or food for the people. The Red Cross ended up helping to feed these large numbers of people (probably 5000 people). What an amazing show of community support!

Keep Nappanee in your prayers!