Emergency medical crews with Cullman EMS and the County Rescue Squad have offered their services and we're coordinating with Mississippi and Louisiana to determine where they are needed most,

We also have to provide services to the emergency personnel who are working the search and rescue. It's an amazing operation right now, and no one organization is doing it by itself. We are all pulling together to try and help each other due to the sheer mass of the storm and damage done.

Rescue here is not guaranteed. Our motto has been: your emergency may not be our emergency.

We have built an emergency bridge, opened public kitchens and medical services and coordinated other relief efforts.

We are racing down Main Street. Arthur is right on the tail of a blck sedan with tinted windows that won't pull over. He slams the horn.
"Arthur," I say.
The car doesn't yield.
"Arthur," I say.
He hits the horn again, still close on the car's bummper.
"Arthur, our turn was back there.

I would not pencil his name into my squad - I'd ink it in.