My son owns a restaurant in our town. He has been soliciting donations for hurricane Helene victims and the response has been amazing! Wednesday my wife and I took our small 5x8 trailer and my truck to Canton, N.C. with the first load of non perishable food stuffs, canned food, water, toiletries, dog food, etc. A customer of his has donated a 22 foot box truck as our little trailers just can’t handle the volume. When we exited I-40 our hand written directions were immediately worthless and we lost our cell service just west of Hickory, N.C. We asked a local how to get to the emergency distribution center and he said to follow him. It’s also a staging area for utility crews and the lot was almost filled with boom trucks and tree cutting equipment and crews. As the main streets were blocked from debris and washed out bridges, he took us on such a circuitous route we would have never found the center at the Pisgah High School. The neighborhoods we went through, the streets were lined with water logged bedding, furniture, and most every imaginable thing a typical family might have in their homes. The city streets are brown colored from all the dried mud. My son is taking his food trailer this weekend to cook for them at the same staging area.
There was only one vehicle ahead of us in line but they must have had the entire football team unloading vehicles and they were hustling those boxes full of food like nobody’s business! If we were thanked once we must have been thanked a hundred times by all the volunteers as well as folks picking up the donations! I have never had such a humbling experience in my 72 years.
There was only one vehicle ahead of us in line but they must have had the entire football team unloading vehicles and they were hustling those boxes full of food like nobody’s business! If we were thanked once we must have been thanked a hundred times by all the volunteers as well as folks picking up the donations! I have never had such a humbling experience in my 72 years.
