Lampasas and Copperas Cove-area volunteers ventured to Golovin, Alaska, to assist with typhoon damange cleanup. Golovin is pictured here in July, prior to the storm devastation. COURTESY PHOTO | WAYNE BUTLER
Golovin is pictured here in early October, after Typhoon Merbok struck. The storm created infrastructure damages and economic hardship in the state of Alaska. COURTESY PHOTO | WAYNE BUTLER
The sky was still black as tar. The clock read 3:30 a.m. on Sept. 26. Wayne Butler packed his things and gently woke his wife. Bleary-eyed, Julie Butler drove her husband to First Baptist Church-Copperas Cove.
From there, youth pastor Peter Simpson took Wayne Butler to the Austin-Bergstrom International Airport, where Butler had a flight from Austin to Seattle to Anchorage and then fi...
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