As people continue to clean up in the south, help is on the way for Hurricane Helene victims in North Carolina.
A grassroots effort that started as a few home school moms, from Triple E home school group collecting donations for Hurricane Helene victims turned into a warehouse full of volunteers organizing items to be shipped out.
Katie Cameron, the organizer said, "There's been so many amazing stories all of us have encountered. We had to turn volunteers away, there was so many that wanted to volunteer and come out and help, the warehouse isn't big enough, but many hands make light work."
Cameron said she has no words for the generosity they have received, "One of our home school moms picked up donations from an elderly lady out in Albion yesterday and she was bedridden and her aid put together supplies and donations and we picked it up."
Barnhart Transportation donated the warehouse space and truck that carried all the supplies collected. Sueann Wiest, the Senior Vice President of Marketing and Communication for Barnhart Transportation said, "It's what we do, if you have the resources, you roll up your sleeves and make it happen."
Wiest saw first hand the devastation caused by the storm. "On Tuesday, I flew down to our Charleston facility, over Charlotte to get there and noticed firsthand the devastation from the air and it really is heartbreaking to see what these people are going through."
It was no small feat, it took dozens and dozens of volunteers to fill the 53 foot truck and trailer with all the supplies needed to bring down to North Carolina.
People volunteered their time to make the event possible including the driver, Dylan Goodman, making the trip to North Carolina. "Our typical work day is, we are allowed our eleven hours to drive. But for hurricane relief and stuff like that, it's just load and go and get there as quickly as possible to help these people", said Goodman.
Families also took this as an opportunity to teach their children the importance of giving back. Johannah Andrzejczak, a Volunteer said, "All these wonderful people helping out the people in North Carolina and all these other places where the hurricane hit."
This was the third truck that Barnhart sent down, the first one was filled with water from Charleston and a second went down filled with hay from Erie last week.