This is an amazing story:
I donated to them last night.
There are loads of links for charities to donate and some are well-known ones and loads are just ordinary people. This couple working by candlelight to bake bread for their neighbors in need, just speaks to a special kind of selfless service.
I try to focus on my own family first and then my friends and neighbors. I was very lucky with this storm, but other people here in my community weren’t.
The first thing I did after this storm was take 4 tanks of oxygen, that have been sitting in my garage since my husband died three years ago, and took them to a dear friend, whose husband is on oxygen 24/7. We had talked about these oxygen tanks before and he has some extra tanks, but since this power outage was worse than usual, even here, I wanted to make sure he had them.
That wasn’t anything at all really and the morning after the hurricane I wanted to slap myself for not doing it months ago, when I realized how much wind damage we had and there was a shelter in place order. As the morning went on I realized how many people in my county were without power. It was a fluke, that my section of my street didn’t lose power, but everyone all around us did.
I guess most people around here are watching the news about this next hurricane and all that discussion about paths and spaghetti models makes me more anxious. We aren’t in the direct path and it looks like we might get some rain.
There are a lot of good people in America, I believe.
This couple are among the best of us.
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