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C A N A D I A N July 2013


McLoud Church Offers Much-Needed Helping Hand After Tornado


Coming out of storm shelters and safe rooms, climbing out from under the stairs, and


bathtubs, McLoud residents found a much different world than the one they knew when they sought cover from a deadly tornado May 19. Trees were broken and blown over, buildings were demolished, cars and trucks were


thrown about as if a juvenile Mother Nature had thrown a temper tantrum and no longer wanted to play with them. The amount of loss was enormous, including two deaths in the area. "People were rushing to check on their homes and property, and their neighbors, but


there was a sense of shock. They didn't know what to do or where to go because their homes weren't there anymore," says Jeff Cockroft, a member of McLoud's Emmanuel Baptist Church. "We just knew we had to do something." That 'something' his small country church provided proved to be the helping hand so


many area residents needed. Church members were immediately dispatched to the local grocery store, which was still standing, with $138 to buy as much peanut butter, jelly, bread and bottled water as


they could buy. What became of that initial effort is reminiscent of the loaves and fishes Continued on page 3.


Supplies for tornado victims are stacked up in front of the Emmanuel Baptist Church, McLoud. The church's disaster relief ministry began helping area residents, first responders, and restoration crews within hours of the tornado.


V SUPPLEMENT TO OKLAHOMA LIVING


A ELECTRALITE By George


As I write this we are under the threat of another day of severe thunderstorms, lightning, hail, damaging winds and pos- sible tornadoes. Last week – May 19 and 20 – were difficult days for Oklahomans. Canadian Valley Electric Cooperative and many of its members experienced first- hand the fury and impact of an Oklahoma tornado those days. As the storm came through Bethel Acres, the western part of Shawnee and on across the system, about 3,000 Canadian Valley Electric Coopera- tive members lost electric power. Many lost much more.


After four days electric service had been restored to virtually all of the Ca- nadian Valley Electric Customers whose home was still in condition to receive electricity. As of today, approximately 80 Canadian Valley Electric Cooperative customers’ homes are still not in a condi- tion to receive electricity or are com- pletely destroyed. Many of these have lost that which had taken a lifetime to put together. Alone they cannot recover their losses.


The loss of young lives at the schools of our neighbors to the west touched us all to do “something.” And many, many from all across the nation are doing something. That is especially hearten- ing. The following column appeared in the Shawnee-News Star on Sunday, May 26, 2013. It was written by Brian Blansett, publisher of the paper. Brian is a member of Canadian Valley Electric Cooperative. I have asked his permission to reprint his column here. I know Brian well and know that this comes from the heart.


By Brian Blansett: “My cousin lost his home to the tornado in Moore on Monday. No injuries, but everything


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