As the supper hour approached in the Serendipity Drive subdivision on Sunday, a group of teens walked the neighborhood carrying shopping bags filled with food and offering it to area residents.
“We went to all of our friends' houses to collect canned and boxed foods for my street,” said Dianna Waddington who organized the impromptu food drive.
What makes her efforts more amazing is that Waddington lived in a home on Serendipity Drive that was destroyed by the tornado.
Even though she had a terrible thing happen to her, she said she was thinking about her friends and neighbors.
“It’s the right thing to do,” Waddington said.
That was just one in a series of amazing things that’s happened in the neighborhood in the last day or so.
Over at James Lamprect’s home, he set up two grills on his front lawn of his unscathed home to cook for his neighbors who were tornado victims.
Peering down the street at so many wrecked homes Lamprect said, “When you look at the destruction, you feel humbled by it.”
“You try and think of how can we help one another; how can we love on one another, so we put some food together,” Lamprect explained.
Earlier in the day, the victims of the tornado in this subdivision spent hours trying to put their lives together once again.
“The front of my house is fine, except my car was picked up and thrown,” said resident Marc Burris. “It’s amazing.”
Throughout the Serendipity Drive subdivision, amazing stories were being told.
“I got pretty lucky. Six inches to the left and I wouldn’t be here,” said Bill Church as he pointed to the side of his damaged home.
The winds tore the side of his house right off, leaving him missing a garage; but leaving the rest of his home and his life intact.
“I consider myself lucky,” Church admitted.
Serendipity means finding good fortune by accident and on Serendipity Drive, good fortune abounded. Although homes were destroyed, nobody lost their lives.
As the cleanup continued throughout Sunday, those living in the neighborhood received help not only from officials but from spiritual organizations as well; among them, the N.C. Baptist Men.
The group sent a disaster relief team to the neighborhood, which went from home to home offering aid.
“We’re seeing what we can do to help the community here,” said team leader Sam Gupton. “We’re assessing the types of damage to get the right crews in to help out with temporary repairs 'til people can get full repairs done.”
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