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News & Observer: Tornado victims dig out
By Marti Maguire
News & Observer
Monday, Nov. 17, 2008
Baptists, Mormons and other volunteers helped victims after the devastation of a tornado according to this story from the News & Observer in North Carolina. An excerpt from the story by Marti Maguire talks about involvement by members of the LDS Church:
 
Teresa Batten was still shaken Sunday as volunteers from The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and others separated pieces of metal from piles of wood slated for burning. They cut damaged trees into logs, occasionally bringing Batten pieces of mail found in the nearby woods.

More than 50 people pitched in a day after one of the early-morning tornadoes blew two porches away from Batten's home and took much of her roof, causing massive water damage.

"They just all showed up this morning and started going," she said. "Just to see these people out here today is amazing."

See the rest of this story at The News & Observer