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DALLAS COUNTY, Ala. (WIAT) — Saturday night’s tornadoes took the lives of two people in Dallas County. Now, the community is coming together like never before.
“It was- I thought I was gonna die, for real,” said Michelle Moore. “I just held on. That’s all I could do.”
Moore said a tornado ripped her trailer in two. With her arm in a sling, she explained she was trapped for an hour.
“We got in the hall, me and my dogs did. I ended up in the shower with one of my dogs. And I had stuff on top of me. They had to get it off the top of me so I could get out. It’s something to go through,” she said.
Now, Moore is staying with a friend until she figures out what to do next.
“I don’t know what else to do. I mean, we don’t even have homes no more,” she said. “I don’t know what we’re gonna do. I just don’t know.”
With others in the community without a home, or a way to cook, one restaurant owner is lending a hand. Sergio Sanchez owns Valle Grande Mexican Grill in Maplesville. His team has been boxing up quesadillas since this morning.
“I went to go check on my son’s house. I see the big damage in Plantersville. So, I made the decision right there that as soon as I get up in the morning, you know, contact the employees to come together so we can cook some food and start delivering,” explained Sanchez. “But it was pretty bad last night.”
Sanchez said they are all looking after each other.
“The customers who come to eat at my restaurant are the customers we are delivering food to right now,” Sanchez said. “So, it’s just, it’s a very tight, very good community. And all of us- this is what makes our community, that we help each other whenever we need.”
Sanchez doesn’t know how many boxes they’ve delivered so far, but he said they won’t stop until they run out of food.
“We, all the time, pull together as a community. So, whatever happened out there we will definitely… there’s people out there with no homes. No place to stay. Us as a community- we will do whatever it takes to put them under the roof,” he explained.
In a statement, Gov. Kay Ivey said there’s reported damage in 52 of Alabama’s 67counties.
She said in part quote, “We pray for those lives we lost, as well as those who were injured.”