The 40 assembled walls were placed in the back of Byron Mann’s trailer, as well as other trailers, to be transported to the build site in Mountainburg, Arkansas.
Building Hope Methodists from Northwest Arkansas rebuild a home for Mountainburg resident BY CALEB HENNINGTON Digital Content Editor
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hortly after 4 p.m. on April 13, 2018 – Friday the 13th, as it happened to be – a devastating storm barreled through Western Arkansas, hitting parts of Crawford County. The majority of the storm’s damage – and what was later discovered to be an EF-2 tornado with peak winds of up to 120 mph – devastated the small Ozark Mountains town of Mountainburg. The tornado cut a path through almost 12 miles of Crawford County, uprooting trees, snapping power lines, flipping cars and trapping residents inside of their homes. In total, the tornado damaged dozens of homes and injured four residents of Mountainburg in the process. But for one resident of Mountainburg, the tornado did more than just damage his home; it completely destroyed it, leaving him without a place to call his own. 11
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