As the week begins, Southern Baptist disaster relief teams are on the move serving meals and clearing debris after Hurricane Isaias hit Florida’s Panhandle Oct. 9, Send Relief crisis response director Coy Webb shared Monday morning. The storm reportedly made landfall as a Category 2 storm packing 105 mph winds, storm surge, heavy rainfall and tornado threats that reached across portions of the Panhandle, Alabama and Mississippi.
See related report on Alabama Baptist Disaster Relief efforts.
At least four deaths and nearly 390,000 power outages were reported across the region over the weekend, CBS News and The World and Everything in It podcast reported.
2,000 meals and more
Meanwhile, Florida Southern Baptist Disaster Relief volunteers served up 2,000 meals at a Pensacola site and partnered with the Salvation Army on feeding efforts. Volunteer teams from Florida and several other states are also setting up recovery sites for chainsaw work, roof tarping and other related cleanup efforts. Alabama Baptist teams also are assessing damage.
See related links:
Hurricane Isaias and the path to transformative truth -Denison Forum
DR volunteers from at least 6 states helping in wake of Isaias -Baptist Press
U.S. Hurricane aftermath -The World and Everything in It podcast
Thousands still without power in Florida and Alabama as Isaias moves north and clean up continues -CBS News
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EDITOR’S NOTE — This story was compiled from various news outlets by The Baptist Paper.
