A trip to Macon County, Tennessee, last week really opened my eyes to the destruction Mother Nature can bring.  At a world level we’ve seen it before with the Tsunami’s, in the U.S. we’ve seen Hurricane Katrina, and locally we’ve seen floods, but I’ve never seen anything destroy so much so quickly.  The victims of last week’s tornados in Middle Tennessee say the storm lasted just 25 seconds.  In 25 seconds their lives went from normal to chaotic.  We met people who lost everything they owned. One woman lost her house one year to the day her children died.  When we left Macon County the storm had killed 14 people, many just children.  The survivors seemed remarkably strong considering.  Every person we talked to said they were just happy to be alive.  They know many of their neighbors weren’t as lucky.