Entrance to NorthPointe Church in Adairsville, the central facility for relief efforts Credit: David W. Thorrnton
- Entrance to NorthPointe Church in Adairsville, the central facility for relief efforts
- Relief supplies are stockpiled inside the NorthPointe gym.
- Residents "shop" for relief supplies.
- Peachtree Community Church team members receive instructions.
- Truck from Peachtree loaded with food boxes from the Atlanta Community Food Bank and about to set out from NorthPointe Church.
- Food boxes piled high
- One of the first damaged houses the team saw.
- A damaged house being demolished by an excavator.
- A row of heavily damaged mobile homes.
- A shattered tree in front of a gutted mobile home.
- Nothing is left of the Church of the Covenant except the steps.
- A collapsed house.
- Two cars sit where the garage used to be, surrounded by the remnants of the house.
- The roof of this house was picked up and deposited into the swimming pool.
- The house where the pastor and his family survived the storm.
- Peachtree team members clear debris around the pastor's house.
- Peachtree Community Church team leader Candace Raines holds up a cassette tape found in the rubble titled "I want us to be together in Heaven."
- Tree snapped by the wind.
- Trees lean across the devastated landscape.
- This metal ladder recovered from the remains of a house was bent by the wind.
- A cookbook tops a pile of debris.
- Wreckage of a church camp where Jerry Clower once performed.
- Damage from the April 27 tornado that struck the Cartersville, Ga. area.
- Damage from the April 27 tornado that struck the Cartersville, Ga. area.
- Piles of debris and downed trees
- An American flag flies over the site of the house where the baby and parents survived in a bath tub.
- Damage from the April 27 tornado that struck the Cartersville, Ga. area.
- Damage from the April 27 tornado that struck the Cartersville, Ga. area.
- This house was a two-story farmhouse before the storm. It also had a porch.
- Robert Sumney stands in front of the closet where he and eight family members took shelter.
- Inside the closet
- Interior stairs leading up to the where the second floor used to be.
- The new "sun deck."
- A tree punched through the wall leaving this hole.
- The same hole from the outside.
- Peachtree team members hold kittens born the day after the storm.
- Peachtree team members with residents
- A stone chimney was all that was left of this house. The family took shelter in the basement under the chimney.
- Pile of debris from a homeowner's front yard.
- The same homeowner's backyard. They had to get permission from the Environmental Protection Division to remove trees and debris from the creek, which took several days.
- Land grant cabin, circa 1852, that was destroyed by the tornado.
- Tents set up by the wreckage of Crowe Springs Baptist Church. These tents serve as the Community Service Center as well as church.
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