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(2 Oct 2024)
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Hendersonville, North Carolina – 2 October 2024
1. Trees down in front of homes
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2. SOUNDBITE (English) Eric Williamson, Minister, First Baptist Church:
“We’re going and meeting members who cannot get out to get resources. They don’t have telephone service. Even if they have a landline, a lot of that isn’t working. So, bringing them food and water and also just bringing them a smile and a prayer with them just to give them comfort.”
3. Eric Williamson driving in car
4. Trees down in front of homes
5. Williamson walking up to Virginia Gheesling’s home
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6. SOUNDBITE (English) Eric Williamson, Minister, First Baptist Church:
“That’s why I immediately wanted to see Ms. Virginia, because she didn’t seem to be aware of some of the things like the boiled water advisory, some of the things in her refrigerator had gone bad, so she wasn’t aware that she didn’t need to be eating some of those.”
7. Williamson next to Gheesling
8. Close up of Williamson
9. Close up of Gheesling
10. Close up of Williamson
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11. SOUNDBITE (English) Eric Williamson, Minister, First Baptist Church:
“That was striking to me and I was uncomfortable with where she was on her short supplies yesterday. She’s doing fine now and has plenty. That left me uneasy.”
12. Various of Williamson holding list of people to visit
13. Wide of Gheesling, Williamson, and his family
14. Close up of Gheesling
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15.SOUNDBITE (English) Eric Williamson, Minister, First Baptist Church:
“But these that can’t make it out, it means so much to them that we remember them and they’re not forgotten.”
16. Williamson entering Virginia Gheesling’s home
17. Close up of Gheesling
STORYLINE:
Eric Williamson’s job as a minister is to make rounds to check on members of First Baptist Church with limited mobility. This week, he’s sharing essential supplies and information with them as many North Carolina residents remain isolated due to lack of power, phone and internet service after Hurricane Helene hit the area. Many also lack potable water.
Virginia Gheesling, 86, is a widow who lives alone in Hendersonville, North Carolina. She has two kids in the area – neither have power and only one can reach her due to damaged roads.
Gheesling was relieved that her power came on last night.
“(I) sat around and waited and didn’t know when it was gonna ever come on, because I’d never been through anything like this,” she said.
The storm left millions without electricity and phone service across Southeast in the six days since making landfall, and now many people are relying on old-fashioned ways of communicating.
While government cargo planes brought food and water into the hardest-hit areas Wednesday and rescue crews waded through creeks searching for survivors, those who made it through the storm, whose death toll has reached 179, leaned on one another — not technology.
“That’s why I immediately wanted to see Ms. Virginia, because she didn’t seem to be aware of some of the things like the boiled water advisory, some of the things in her refrigerator had gone bad, so she wasn’t aware that she didn’t need to be eating some of those,” Williamson said.
President Joe Biden was set to take in a view of the devastation while flying over North and South Carolina on Wednesday and announced the Defense Department will send 1,000 active-duty soldiers to help distribute food, water and supplies.
AP video shot by Brittany Peterson
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(2 Oct 2024)
RESTRICTION SUMMARY:
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Hendersonville, North Carolina – 2 October 2024
1. Trees down in front of homes
++PARTIALLY COVERED++
2. SOUNDBITE (English) Eric Williamson, Minister, First Baptist Church:
“We’re going and meeting members who cannot get out to get resources. They don’t have telephone service. Even if they have a landline, a lot of that isn’t working. So, bringing them food and water and also just bringing them a smile and a prayer with them just to give them comfort.”
3. Eric Williamson driving in car
4. Trees down in front of homes
5. Williamson walking up to Virginia Gheesling’s home
++COVERED++
6. SOUNDBITE (English) Eric Williamson, Minister, First Baptist Church:
“That’s why I immediately wanted to see Ms. Virginia, because she didn’t seem to be aware of some of the things like the boiled water advisory, some of the things in her refrigerator had gone bad, so she wasn’t aware that she didn’t need to be eating some of those.”
7. Williamson next to Gheesling
8. Close up of Williamson
9. Close up of Gheesling
10. Close up of Williamson
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11. SOUNDBITE (English) Eric Williamson, Minister, First Baptist Church:
“That was striking to me and I was uncomfortable with where she was on her short supplies yesterday. She’s doing fine now and has plenty. That left me uneasy.”
12. Various of Williamson holding list of people to visit
13. Wide of Gheesling, Williamson, and his family
14. Close up of Gheesling
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15.SOUNDBITE (English) Eric Williamson, Minister, First Baptist Church:
“But these that can’t make it out, it means so much to them that we remember them and they’re not forgotten.”
16. Williamson entering Virginia Gheesling’s home
17. Close up of Gheesling
STORYLINE:
Eric Williamson’s job as a minister is to make rounds to check on members of First Baptist Church with limited mobility. This week, he’s sharing essential supplies and information with them as many North Carolina residents remain isolated due to lack of power, phone and internet service after Hurricane Helene hit the area. Many also lack potable water.
Virginia Gheesling, 86, is a widow who lives alone in Hendersonville, North Carolina. She has two kids in the area – neither have power and only one can reach her due to damaged roads.
Gheesling was relieved that her power came on last night.
“(I) sat around and waited and didn’t know when it was gonna ever come on, because I’d never been through anything like this,” she said.
The storm left millions without electricity and phone service across Southeast in the six days since making landfall, and now many people are relying on old-fashioned ways of communicating.
While government cargo planes brought food and water into the hardest-hit areas Wednesday and rescue crews waded through creeks searching for survivors, those who made it through the storm, whose death toll has reached 179, leaned on one another — not technology.
“That’s why I immediately wanted to see Ms. Virginia, because she didn’t seem to be aware of some of the things like the boiled water advisory, some of the things in her refrigerator had gone bad, so she wasn’t aware that she didn’t need to be eating some of those,” Williamson said.
President Joe Biden was set to take in a view of the devastation while flying over North and South Carolina on Wednesday and announced the Defense Department will send 1,000 active-duty soldiers to help distribute food, water and supplies.
AP video shot by Brittany Peterson
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