Ben Madilynn
One of WMAR’s own has been helping connect people in her former home of North Carolina, while communications are down.
She checked in with one local animal shelter to see how they’re recovering.
“It’s disorienting to walk down the streets because you almost don’t even know where you are on the roads that you have walked every day for over a decade,” said Leah Chumbley with Brother Wolf Animal Rescue.
Chumbley saw the worst of the storm and the destruction it left behind.
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She told WMAR she watched a semi truck crumble like a piece of paper as flood waters overtook a bridge.
And when she could finally return to her shelter, she found knee-deep mud and piles of rubble, counting her blessings that they all got out in time.
“Thank goodness we did,” she said, “Because if we had not evacuated that shelter, all of our animals would have died in that shelter, like the entire shelter was underwater. Every single asset that this organization has used to save the lives of over 100,000 animals.”
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Right now, Brother Wolf is asking for donations of money.
But Leah says another way to help is adopting or fostering from shelters in the area, to make space for animals misplaced by the storm.
Brother Wolf informed us that a few animals have been moved to Maryland.
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