by waaytoomuchintothis » Sun May 19, 2019 4:10 pm
Okay, yes, I'm interrupting a thread. This topic title jumped out at me. This story is what guys like Bruce were all about. Its important that people know about this. This is what America was before all the hateful nonsense:
When I was a boy on the Gulf Coast (MS & LA), hurricanes would occasionally hammer us into the stone age. When that happened, as we were gathering up our lives for each other from all over the place, making piles in front of what was left of houses, the biggest scare was that in the humid heat we had no clean water, and the exhausting work really made water an emergency 24 hours a day. Each time the hurricanes hit, there were two heroes that came to our rescue, time and time again. JAX Beer, the big brewery on Jackson Square in the heart of downtown New Orleans, canned fresh water for us by the hundreds of thousands of gallons and drove the water to us, even if they had to go hundreds of miles out of their way around wreckage and busted highways, and always free of charge. The little old ladies found that the drivers would carry cases of water on 2 wheel trucks all the way to their homes. One guy put three cases and me on his 2 wheeler and brought us both home when I was very young. Lots of people would just stand there and cry while the water was being handed out. When one truck was empty another showed up soon after, needed or not. The other hero was Mennonite Beef. This religious group quietly just slipped in and left hundreds of cases of cans of tasty canned beef in front of houses all over town. Our town was tiny, backed up against the bayou on the north and the beach along the south. But both of these outfits found us, sought us out without our calling for them (even if the phones had worked), and saved us time and time again.
Resume racing results, please. It just had to be said.
