As if Joplin hasn't been through enough

[carolina-rig-01]

I know you guys have been seen the coverage of the Joplin MO tornado on t.v. and for the most part the coverage is pretty good. But no matter how good the t.v. coverage is it still can't tell the whole story. There is so much good going on here, I have never seen an area rally around a town like we are here. Maybe it's because that is the type of thing that seems to be left out of media coverage but it sure made me proud of where I come from. Every parking lot in town has hundreds of pallets of bottled water and food. Britney and I have donate all kinds of stuff from canned food, baby wipes, baby food, diapers, baby toys, and clothes and at every turn when we were driving through town donating these things we were just blown away with all the good that is being done in town. On top of all the donations that people are giving, there are also BBQ grills fired up and cooking in hundreds of parking lots to feed the people who were affected by the storm as well as the volunteers who are dropping their personal lives to help everyone out. There are lots of storys of hope and encouragment that don't seem to make it to the 10:00 news for some reason. On what buildings that were left standing you can see spray painted messages like "Down but NOT OUT!" , "We will be fine", "Thank you so much volunteers, we love you so much", "Drop the camera and lend a hand", and my personal favorite "Go Home Obama". You also see all the spray painted X's on vehicles and buildings showing that they have been searched, but sadly some of these have numbers out beside the X that shows how many people were found dead there. Well as if Joplin hasn't been through enough, today they are having a memorial service for the town of Joplin which President Obama is to give a speach but also the Westboro cult is also in town protesting. They said that God hates Joplin and that is he why he put a tornado here, and we got what we deserved. We decided not to go because it isn't a venue for Lake but my dad is over there and called earlier to tell me that one of the Westboro idiots just got chased across a parking lot by about 50 bikers who were going to kick his arse. He said that 3 cops grabbed him and slammed him to the ground behind his van and at that point nobody could see what happened after that but the bikers never got to finish their job . There are a lot of people here who are at their breaking point from the past week and I wouldn't be suprised at all if somebody who had nothing left to lose finally did what so many Americans have wanted to do to these idiot for a long time now. 3 meals a day and a roof over their heads sounds pretty good to a lot of folks around here now, even if it is in jail so hopefully today will be the day the Westboro cult has been asking for over the past few years.