[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 151 (2005), Part 18]
[House]
[Page 25256]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                      PRAYERS FOR TORNADO VICTIMS

  (Mr. PENCE asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. PENCE. Two a.m. Sunday morning in Newburgh, Indiana, the rains 
came down, the winds blew and beat against the homes of that community, 
and it fell with a great crash.

                              {time}  1930

  It was the worst loss of life for a tornado in the State of Indiana 
since April 1974.
  Nancy Grimes said to me today in an e-mail of the experience, ``It 
had to be the scariest thing I have ever been through. The noise and 
the debris hitting our house was incredible. I think I screamed for 5 
to 10 minutes during the duration, and then there was total calm. And 
the next morning I cried when I walked out onto our front porch and saw 
the destruction.'' She spoke of finding a needlepoint Christmas 
ornament with the word ``Hope'' stitched into it. She wrote, ``It will 
certainly find a place on our Christmas tree this year.''
  I urge my fellow Hoosiers and all Americans who have watched the grim 
reports from southern Indiana and northern Kentucky to be generous in 
prayer, to take every opportunity to come to the material aid of the 
families and communities affected by this horrendous tornado.

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