Trucking company helps tornado victims in Alabama

COLBERT - Churches across Madison County, including some outside the county, joined in a for Mother's Day effort to collect clothing, food, money and even tools that were shipped to residents of two Alabama towns ravaged by deadly tornadoes on April 27.

The collection of goods arrived on the afternoon of May 8 at the Colbert Train Depot, where Jody Blackmon said he was moved by the tremendous outpouring of supplies including new chain saws, batteries, clothing, nonperishable food, money and a generous supply of toys that filled a tractor-trailer.

"I wasn't as surprised that we had a good turnout with items donated as I was with the fact that so many jumped in to help without any instruction whatsoever," said Blackmon, whose trucking company B&B Trucking, took the supplies to the cities of Rainesville and Sylvania.

"We wouldn't have accomplished what we did if we didn't have a lot of people - members from Colbert, Riverside, Hull, Carlton, Comer, Springfield, Trinity and Shiloh Baptist churches, churches from Athens and Commerce, and even churches I had never heard of before from other denominations," he said.

The "Rolling Relief" aid effort came about when B&B truck driver Phillip Robertson recently was making his weekly ride through Alabama, which carried him through the tornado ravaged towns.

Robertson pulled off to the side of the road to check on a family he saw combing through a pile of debris that was once their home. The truck driver decided to remain in Rainsville until he was able to purchase tents, sleeping bags and some groceries for the family. On the way home he called Blackmon to ask if there was anything B&B could do for the residents.

"I told him, 'Sure, I felt like there was plenty that we could do and it was something we needed to

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