In many rural Alabama areas, it is taking crews a while to restore power. Some churches are making the most of their uncomfortable situations by combining their resources and sharing with their fellow man.
In the small south Alabama town of Beatrice, community residents combined their refrigerated and frozen food items and cooked out on grills when they realized their food would spoil before the electricity could be restored, according to Claudia Smith, Beatrice Baptist Church secretary.
“It’s been a communitywide effort,” she said. “Everybody’s been sharing whatever they have … food, water, ice, generators. One of our church deacons has a logging company and he has had his crew and equipment in here getting trees off people’s houses.”
Smith noted that working together is just a way of life for Beatrice residents. “Everybody in town has pitched in and helped each other. It’s just the way people in Beatrice are – giving and sharing and seeing that everybody is taken care of.”
At one point, a local store owner gave away perishable items while another person used a relief truck to give away free ice, she noted.
Even though Beatrice is located less than 150 miles from Gulf Shores, residents experienced little rain and no flooding.
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