Everything comes full circle.
With Hurricane Florence causing a ruckus along the east coast, one community in rural Virginia was left stranded by a washed out road.
Bill Ford, along with his neighbors were stranded inside their homes when floodwaters carved a ten foot drop on the road running through their neighborhood.
Normally, this fix would cost the residents about $10K, but they shared their story with local news outlets and on social media. That’s when a team of contractors and engineers jumped in to help fix the road themselves.
The volunteer team was organized by a business owner named Winston Marsden, who felt a call to action to help when he saw a post on social media. Through numerous calls with Ford, the two were able coordinate help efforts between the volunteers and community members.
But wait, there’s more . . . and it’s GOOD!
Turns out the two men had crossed paths before; 18 years ago, to be exact.
Ford was a deputy with the Amelia County Sheriff’s Department back in 2000, when he answered a call about a young man who’d crashed his ATV into an icy creek. The young man’s internal temperature had dropped all the way down to 75º Fahrenheit, and Ford was the one to get him rushed to the hospital, where he was saved.
That young man was Marsden!
Marsend told his local news, “I made him a promise way back when, that I was going to do something for him, to pay him back, and this is it.”
