 Ken Odor
Home spared damage One Cold Harbor woman saw the hand of God in the aftermath of the recent tornado that struck Hanover County.
One Cold Harbor woman saw the hand of God in the aftermath of the recent tornado that struck Hanover County.
While her neighbor Tom Curd lost his barn, and others suffered damage all around, the house where Linda and her husband Richard got by with hardly a scratch.
Not that it wasn’t a frightening experience.
Sunday April 20 was a rainy day in the area, and Linda was relaxing after church when she heard her big cast iron dinner bell ring one time.
“I looked up to see if maybe a bird had hit it,” said Linda.
What followed was the storm that destroyed there neighbor’s barn and downed trees throughout the area.
“It was all over in 20 seconds or so,” said Linda, who yelled to her husband to take shelter in the basement.
But he was looking out the window of his home office.
“I saw the top of the tree go straight up in the air and come down,” said Richard.
Debbie Turner, who lives across the from the Wooddy’s home on McClellan Road, said the Wooddy home disappeared inside a dark cloud for a moment.
Despite the destruction, no one was injured by the tornado of April 20.
That was the blessing,” said Turner.
Linda agrees.
‘Our lives, our house and our animals were spared,” she said. “we began to count our blessings rather than our damages.”
When everyone had left, Lind and Richard found a stone cross with the Lord’s Prayer on it lying on the floor, that fell from a shelf by the front door.
“Along with the bell, we believe this cross is to let us know that God had his protective hand over us,” said Linda.
“This storm was a reminder of who is really in charge.”
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