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ArchiveSylva, NC 28779 - Volume 74, NO. 26 - Release Date: 09/30/99 |
Mike Ensley, Jackson County's emergency services coordinator, returned Monday after spending a week in Kinston, one of many eastern North Carolina towns devestated by flood waters that resulted from Hurricane Floyd. Called in to assist with the relief effort there, Ensley and other volunteers were witnesses to scene after scene of devastation. |
By Rose Hooper"As long as folks bring it, we'll haul it," said Bryson Trucking Co. owner Billy Ray Bryson, who this week returned from taking a truckload of relief supplies to Hurricane Floyd victims in Tarboro.Bryson hauled a full 18-wheeler load Friday (Sept. 24) with items collected at the Community Service Center in Sylva during a drive organized by county employees. "I couldn't describe to you how pitiful the people down east are; most of them only have the clothes on their back," said Bryson. "You can watch it on the news and read about it in the paper, but nothing can portray how bad it really is." As they started to unload the bottled water, cleaning materials, canned goods, baby supplies, pillows and blankets, "the people there were so happy they just started crying," said Bryson. Flood continued . . . |
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