As an amateur radio operator, about a week before the storm was predicted to hit, the radio frequencies were full of chatter of folks preparing for the storm and how organizations were going to respond.
I spent the Saturday and Sunday after the storm driving around southern Greenville County, reporting locations that were open, selling gas and food, taking cash and/or cards, reporting traffic lights that were out and roads that were closed. This information was being passed on to first responders over the amateur radio frequencies.
During the week after, as we’re relaying information, we start to hear stories. Heartwarming stories, but also heartbreaking stories.
We were relayed that a man had been reunited with his family, and everyone was in good health and not injured. And in the same transmission that same family found out they lost everything they had.
But they still had each other.
And they had a lot of people praying for them.