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Jonathan Howard

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
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The Shawn Ryan Show
#138 Aerial Recovery - The Hurricane Helene Disaster

And I'm like, y'all don't know how bad this is because they're thinking it's just their river that's washed out, not the entire like North Carolina, Tennessee, Georgia.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#138 Aerial Recovery - The Hurricane Helene Disaster

And we've shown videos and they're just like, oh, I'm like, you're probably not gonna have a road for two to four months.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#138 Aerial Recovery - The Hurricane Helene Disaster

And that would kind of change their opinion on them wanting to leave.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#138 Aerial Recovery - The Hurricane Helene Disaster

But that lady, yeah, go back to her, low oxygen, about a day left, we convinced her to get in the helicopter because we could take her son who hiked over the mountains with his daughter as well.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#138 Aerial Recovery - The Hurricane Helene Disaster

And then we flew him out, but...

The Shawn Ryan Show
#138 Aerial Recovery - The Hurricane Helene Disaster

I mean, again, like great, you know, if it wasn't for Mark, we wouldn't have been able to do that or Zeb.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#138 Aerial Recovery - The Hurricane Helene Disaster

But as we were taking off, I just, Mark, he was like, basically like, oh God, he just yanked the power up and there was a power line like right in front of us.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#138 Aerial Recovery - The Hurricane Helene Disaster

We didn't even see it.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#138 Aerial Recovery - The Hurricane Helene Disaster

And then I was like, okay, I'm like looking out.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#138 Aerial Recovery - The Hurricane Helene Disaster

And then there was another one right in front of that.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#138 Aerial Recovery - The Hurricane Helene Disaster

So that was kind of like a big eye opener.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#138 Aerial Recovery - The Hurricane Helene Disaster

Like, okay, like we really got to be switched on here because this is not a normal HLZ landing.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#138 Aerial Recovery - The Hurricane Helene Disaster

And then even as we landed to bring them back to their house, we had to land on a slope like this, which is something he's never done before.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#138 Aerial Recovery - The Hurricane Helene Disaster

And we actually had some issues on that one as well.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#138 Aerial Recovery - The Hurricane Helene Disaster

We actually thought we put the tail in the dirt because it started like vibrating real hard.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#138 Aerial Recovery - The Hurricane Helene Disaster

And we were just like, oh man, we're stuck here in the middle of nowhere.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#138 Aerial Recovery - The Hurricane Helene Disaster

But it was just kind of like the way the angle was and it was fine.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#138 Aerial Recovery - The Hurricane Helene Disaster

And then we had to go back and grab them because we couldn't carry all the weight.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#138 Aerial Recovery - The Hurricane Helene Disaster

But that's literally the kind of situations that were going on.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#138 Aerial Recovery - The Hurricane Helene Disaster

Oh, sorry, go ahead.