PSA...Prepared for Erika & Others?

After Hugo hit Charleston, me, my father, and my brother in law, went up there with two friends, Pete and Tracey,  and worked for a week. We hadn't planned on going, but the morning after it hit we were watching the destruction on the news and we all agreed that we needed to do something to help. Within an hour we were on our way. 

Pete's 85 year old stepmother lived in town. She let us stay at her house. So here all five of us crash at her place. There was no power the entire time. We took chainsaws, etc. and just started working all around the neighborhood. 

Her church had a huge list of people, mainly old people, that had damage to their homes and needed help. We would get a list of addresses early in the morning and go from one to the other until it was too dark to see.  Most of the homes we went to had huge trees on them. You could climb on the roof without a ladder and look down and see the floor of the home. 

It was hard work, but very rewarding. Almost everyone tried to pay us, but we never took a dime. We didn't do it for the money we did it because it was the right thing to do. 

I slept on the floor every night and took cold showers and drank room temperature beer, but we had a really good time. It does you good to help your fellow man in their time of need. 

A tornado hit my little town on Mothers Day seven years ago. I had huge limbs down all over my yard. In less than an hour I had unsolicited help cutting them up and hauling them off at no charge. 

What goes around comes around.