The 'Resilient Newfoundlander’ saves the day: Lessons from the storm of the century GlobeDebate
Andrew Vaughan/The Canadian PressIt was just a ridiculous storm. Preposterous beyond all expectation and sense.
Our next door neighbour couldn’t get out of her house – she was dug out by friends. My wife ventured out and realized she was walking on top of a neighbour’s car. We started to help dig out neighbours as countless others did the same around us, a spontaneous shovel party, digging away in disbelief, to tunnel a path under 12-foot drifts to our front doors.
We had moments of pure joy. We planned a potluck with our friend and neighbour, Andie, and a sprawling group of friends and strangers came through our door bringing the goods: casseroles, chili, soup, gin and blueberry crumble. Despite being neighbours, probably half of us had never met. The storm fixed that at least.New organizations were popping up. Shovel brigades headed out, digging out those who needed it.
My friend Kathryn Lear noticed that some folks she would occasionally take to a methadone clinic seemed to be in rough shape. “They looked close to death,” she told me. The group’s members started leaving boxes of food in public and took anonymous requests, to help people who were reluctant to ask.
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