CLEANING UP / NORTH CAROLINA RECOVERY
((Banner: Cleaning Up))
((Reporter: Katherine Gypson))
((Camera: Mike Burke))
((Adapted by: Martin Secrest))
((Map: New Bern, North Carolina))
((Banner: Following Hurricane Florence, residents of the hard hit coastal town of New Bern, North Carolina rallied together to clean up from the storm))
((NATS))
((CAMILLA WHEELER, OWNER, NAUTICAL WHEELERS))
We think that we had four to five feet of water, pretty much four feet of water, and then with the rushing of the water, it got some of our merchandise up to five feet.
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((LUCAS JORDAN, VOLUNTEER))
It's just been chaos over the past few days, and I wanted to help for those who have lost so much. That’s what the community is. It’s just about caring for each other, helping, being out, without a helping hand.
((REPORTER))
So, tell me. You opened the front door here. What did you see?
((CAMILLA WHEELER, OWNER, NAUTICAL WHEELERS))
About two inches of mud, and all the merchandise in the floor. That white table over there was turned over, as were all those fixtures out there. Quite a few of us just cried because there’s a lot of work in retail, in setting up and presenting your merchandise, and, you know, running the tags that you put on. A lot of people don’t really think of that side of it but there’s a lot to do, and so there was a lot of hard work that, you know, went into this.
((NATS))
((BEN CHAPMAN, VOLUNTEER))
They're friends, they're of the neighborhood, of my community, and I'm just here to help.
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((REPORTER))
What’s going to happen to the business now? Are you staying, leaving?
((CAMILLA WHEELER, OWNER, NAUTICAL WHEELERS))
Oh no, we’re going to rebuild. We’ll start as soon as we can start getting the walls back. And, we’ll, because I don’t know how fast we’ll get back in business, but we would like to be, very quickly, be back, yeah.
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