“Western North Carolina is destroyed. Hell on earth. I spent last night chainsawing fallen logs on a mountain so people could get in. Before that we were hunting for survivors in (town) and delivering water to the fire department. Got a family out today…”
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The Walmart response to Katrina was amazing. Had no idea they had a division dedicated to disaster response. Actually, had no idea any company did that.
They were ready to go before storm hit.
Guaranteed, Walmart has a convoy moving through the Helene path already.
Another thought.
Was in NO and MS that first week. My hotel was in Gulfport or Biloxi. Don't remember. A few weeks later brought my trailer down and stayed in Gulfport.
Anyway, I was only in NO during the day. Was definitely not safe at night. As sun was setting the frequency of gunfire increased and there was a choke point leaving town to the east.
Main highway bridge was destroyed, so had to take an alternate that was sketchy to traverse.
So, while still in my head, wrote up my inspection reports in town. Only place I felt safe to do that was at one of the disaster relief staging areas.
One day, this is still the first week after storm hit, had my truck parked between a church setup and a Red Cross tent.
The church spot had 2 tables. Left table was stacked with water bottles and right table was brown paper bags with lunch. Just to right of those brown paper bags was maybe 6 bibles.
Oh, they also had a sign with name of their church and state. Think it was North Carolina.
The setup was not in your face at all, yet a first responder walked up to my door, leaned in and said, "do they really need to be proselytizing"?
I just replied, "to be honest, been here over an hour and haven't seen them hand out a Bible yet. Just water and lunch. Think they are asking people if they would like a Bible, but being refused. Hardly proselytizing."
"Yeah, guess so", he replied then walked away.
It was at this moment someone walked out of the Red Cross tent over to the church tables, helped themselves to 2 bags and waters, then back to the tent.
Thought to myself, you have got to be kidding me. Those Red Cross turds are drinking and eating that churches relief supply, lol.
Was hungry and thirsty and came close to walking over there, but at end of the day, I was not a local, not a first responder.
A lot of people love to throw shade on churches, but those churches there after Katrina?
They were doing God's work and were a blessing for sure.