(2 Oct 2024)
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Hendersonville, North Carolina – 2 October 2024
1. Trees down in front of homes
2. Eric Williamson driving in car
3. Trees down in front of homes
4. 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.”
5. Various of Williamson holding list of people to visit
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 walking into Virginia Gheesling’s home
UPSOUND: "Did you run out of Ritz crackers or anything?"
8. The Weather Channel playing on TV
9. Wide of Gheesling, Williamson, and his daughters
10. Cutaway of Williamson’s family making house visits with him
11. Williamson talking to Gheesling
UPSOUND: "You feel like your strength’s back?"
12. Medium of Williamson
13. 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.”
14. Gheesling sitting in chair
UPSOUND: "Do you need anything else though? I don’t need anything. Did your son, can he make it in? My son can’t make it out of Asheville."
15. Cutaway of Williamson
16. Cutaway of one of his sons
17. Cutaway of Gheesling
UPSOUND: "I heard ‘boom boom boom boom’ and I thought what in the world is that? And I came in and the TV was on. And I sat down, I was so shocked, I sat down a minute, and then I started flipping switches and everything I think is working."
18. Cutaway of Williamson
19. Cutaway of Gheesling
UPSOUND: "Sat around and waited and didn’t know when it was gonna ever come on, because I’d never been through anything like this."
20. SOUNDBITE (English) Eric Williamson, Minister, First Baptist Church:
“It’s these that can’t make it out, it means so much to them that we remember them and they’re not forgotten.”
21. Cutaway 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.
AP video shot by Brittany Peterson
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