Helping Hands: Hurricane Helena

METAD was Blessed to be able to procure a 35’ travel trailer for an elderly couple, Kim and Bob, living on Green Mountain in North Carolina whose home was destroyed by Hurricane Helena.  METAD paid the cost of the travel trailer and volunteers did the work of preparing the site to include building a set of stairs for them to access the home easier.  Their church has committed to building a ramp if needed in the future.   The volunteers were not able to put the trailer exactly on the gravel base where they originally thought and had to position it perpendicular due to their flood damaged home.  Unfortunately, Kim and Bob’s home will need to be demolished, which will require space for the heavy equipment to work.  Thus, the volunteers had to reposition the electrical line, dig a new water line as well as a connection line to the septic before the trailer was brought in.   Our project manager, Jeannie, traveled to the site to watch the installation, give a report, and take pictures on the day everything was hooked up. 

Bob and Kim are very grateful for the home and have said that if they are able to rebuild their flood damaged home, they will ensure the travel trailer is passed on to another that needs help.  Bob is 88 and Kim is 74.  It was positioned on their property Wednesday, January 8th, and all is in place now.  They are in the home and believe they will be comfortable there.  Knowing that the trailer was coming, their church had allowed them to live in the basement until the site was completed and trailer arrived.  Kim stated “it’s good to be home.”  One couple resettled in their own place. 

METAD also was Blessed to help in the region with sending many portable propane heaters and adapters as well as specific heavy-duty fans to use in drying out homes.  THANKS TO OUR LORD and to our donors for the means to help.  These proud mountain people have lost so much and are sincerely grateful for the help of organizations that have stepped up.