Tragically, three children have been confirmed among the 23 who lost their lives, while countless others still remain unaccounted for. Edward Graham, Billy Graham's grandson, is working on the ground in Lee County with Samaritan's Purse, where the grief and heartache is palpable.

"Unfortunately, for several families, they have lost loved ones," the former US Army Major and grandson of the late Rev. Billy Graham told Faithwire in a phone interview. "It was a bad storm."

The town of Beauregard, the storm's epicenter, was "so bad that we couldn't even get our teams in there," Graham explained. "Unless you had a badge or you were a first responder, you weren't allowed in there because they were still doing search and rescue," he said.

Graham said the storm whipped up several tornados, making it almost impossible to predict the direction of the impending vortex.

"Another tornado popped down going toward Smith Station. That's close to the area where I've lived a good portion of my life," he explained. "I was in the military at an army base just on the other side of the river."

Graham added that there were "a lot of lower-income families" affected by the tornadoes, noting that a number of trailer parks were affected by the twisters. (Photo credit: Samaritan's Purse/via Faithwire)

"You can imagine a storm like this, the damage that it does in a trailer park—complete destruction," he said.

Speaking from Opelika, just north of the hardest-hit areas, Graham explained that he had met with one woman, who burst into floods of tears when she realized that the team was there to help her disabled veteran neighbor, who was caught up in the tornado and his house destroyed... Subscribe for free to Breaking Christian News here

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