JP Communications has many friends and clients in the southern states of Kentucky, Tennessee, Mississippi and Arkansas, including in some of the specific cities where the tornadoes touched down yesterday. We were horrified to learn of the extent of the destruction, and we hope to soon hear that everyone’s families and homes and businesses are OK.

The bill for the damages caused by the line of tornadoes is going to be pretty severe. If you have family, friends or interests in the affected areas, I urge you to help out by donating to local relief agencies.

In Tennessee (TN) the Nashville Red Cross is coordinating relief efforts in the Volunteer State, which was the hardest hit.

Information on coordinating chapters of the Red Cross for the other states is unavailable at the moment. But the all draw upon the Disaster Relief Fund

Keep these people in your thoughts, and try to think of a way to try to help.

UPDATE: Wendy from the Red Cross stopped by to leave a comment and give us some good places to keep up with the Red Cross relief efforts in the affected states.

If you want to follow the Red Cross response to the tornadoes, visit: redcrosstn.wordpress.com/

or follow Twitter updates at twitter.com/redcros