We are hearing more and more about the devastation wrought by last weekend’s Hurricane Helene, and how our fellow Americans in Western North Carolina, Eastern Tennessee, and Eastern Georgia have been adversely affected. Towns completely destroyed, too many lives lost, and way too much government incompetence and malfeasance.
But we are also hearing about the good: neighbors helping neighbors, brave heroes in private aircraft reaching remote areas with means of communication, supplies, food, water, and hope. This week’s Feel-Good Friday offering is a Helene hero story of a different variety, but it is still one for the books.
David Jones had to travel from Boiling Springs, South Carolina, to Johnson City, Tennessee–normally a two-and-a-half hour or so drive–to walk his daughter down the aisle at her wedding. Then Hurricane Helene and its subsequent destruction, threw a major wrench…
