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<v Newscaster>This area seems to have been hit</v>

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the worst, maybe the center of the storm.

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<v ->There wasn't any time, we didn't realize</v>

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there was a tornado coming our way.

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Just got to the point where we couldn't

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hear each other across the room.

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My wife and the kids went downstairs and I watched

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all my leaves being sucked out of the yard.

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I looked on the backside of my property

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and I could see the tornado back there.

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I could see the debris as it started to hit

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some of my neighbors homes and within a matter

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of seconds for us, it was all over with.

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<v Newscaster>Every home in this subdivision,</v>

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dozens of them, completely flattened down to the ground.

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<v Tom>Shortly after that is when we figured out that</v>

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the tornado had continued on into Washington proper

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and really devastated a big section

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of their residential area there.

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<v ->It's all gone.</v>

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It's just all gone.

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<v ->From then on, the next three days was pretty chaotic</v>

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as we tried to you know, help neighbors and do what

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we could do to pick up the pieces.

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<v ->After the tornado hit, we actually had to send</v>

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employees home who had worked 48 hours straight

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just to make sure that everyone that could possibly

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have their phone or their internet working so they

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could communicate with loved ones

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were back up and working and that's just

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the great spirit of Comcast employees.

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<v ->We had a goal of making sure that everybody had service</v>

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before Thanksgiving and we achieved that goal.

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<v ->You know after the tornado, immediately we started</v>

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talking about what we could do in Washington as a company

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with Comcast Cares Day being an annual event that

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was instantly our first thought.

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<v ->So for Cares Day we partnered with church organization</v>

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in Washington that the city had set up to spear head

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all the clean up activities and coordinate all volunteers.

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<v ->We put them to work, we had them working hard.</v>

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The time that they came was not

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a glamorous side of disaster relief.

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Gone were the big, huge piles of things,

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you're down to the nitty gritty.

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<v ->Our job was to basically pair out destroyed sub floors.</v>

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We literally pulled up the plywood, we all had hammers,

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hulling nails out, we got rid of all the cross beams,

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it was real construction, it was Comcast employees

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and family members just rolling up their sleeves,

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doing what we could to show the community

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that Comcast really does care.

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I've been lucky enough from the time I joined the company,

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I've been to every Comcast Cares Day, it's just a great

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chance for you to interact with co-workers that you may

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know from an email string that you've never met.

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And more importantly, it a time for all of us

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to go out into the communities that we serve and actually

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show the philanthropic, the caring side of Comcast.

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<v ->Comcast Cares Day is what we do.</v>

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We give back to the communities that we serve.

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You do that one time and it's in you and you sign

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up year after year after year.

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<v ->Comcast Cares Day is a great way to</v>

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give back to the community.

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<v ->When your home has been effected by a disaster</v>

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and you see a group of people show up, wearing the same

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t-shirt, rallying together, it was an encouragement,

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not only to each individual resident but to our community

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as a whole, to see a company that would

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care enough to set aside that time.

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That speaks volumes.