Jonathan Howard
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And then probably 30 yards away from that, it was carved in the mud, probably about foot wide SOS.
So I was like, hey, Mark, like, let's go down there.
But it was like.
on a valley, the road was washed out and I'm trying to find an HLZ.
We actually didn't see it when we were coming in, but we crossed two power lines that we almost hit on the way out.
But we literally dropped in basically like on this little small piece of concrete next to a house and a hill and then a washed out road, which we couldn't land there because we were afraid it would collapse into the river.
And then we shut down, got out, started talking to him.
That's usually how we get our intel.
We start talking to him, like, hey, what's going on?
Who needs help?
And they're like, oh, this guy's low on insulin.
But there was a lady there, and she only had about enough fuel in her generator to run her oxygen machine for about a day left.
Wow.
Because her whole family was there.
And emotions are high.
When they first see you, and we're the first people to reach them, I think that was like day four.
They're just like, you can see kind of the color come back to their face.
But they were, everyone we kept running into, like them, they didn't want to leave because they thought the government would be there in a week.
So they're like, oh, everything's going to be okay in a couple of days, right?
Like it's day four already.