“Every disaster is bad,” U.S. Rep. Terri Sewell said after tornadoes ripped through Alabama. “We have to rally the resources and assistance to help our constituents no matter what, but [Selma] was personal. ... Around every corner was a piece of my heart.”
She noted the typical, random nature of the storm—how it destroyed Chestnut’s stately brick home, yet left surrounding shotgun homes untouched; how it passed over historic Brown Chapel A.M.E. yet leveled the Reformed Presbyterian Church two blocks away.
The response, though, was swift—once they saw. Once they saw Selma scroll across the bottom thread on CNN and other news networks. It was swift and unique. Because it was bipartisan. Because nothing halts partisan pettiness like the stark realities of disaster. At least for a time.Sewell received calls from new U.S. House Democratic Minority Leader Rep. Hakeem Jeffries and Republican Speaker of the House Rep. Kevin McCarthy, and many others.
“For the next hour, I was on the headset going, Can you hover over this spot? That spot?” Sewell recalled. “We must have gone back and forth—from north to south, east to west. We went down Highway 14. Huge trees snapped like they were chopsticks. We hovered over the country club and the Winn Dixie, the main source of groceries for the west side of Selma. It was breathtaking. It was just unbelievable.
I wasn’t the only person to call attention to the unusual international “trio of ladies” that toured Selma Friday—Sewell, Ivey, and Britt, whom the representative has known since the junior Senator’s days as chief of staff for retired Sen. Richard Shelby.
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