I want to welcome everyone back to the Pete Caniano show. I am here with fellow Old Glory Club

member, not me, not you. How are you doing today? I'm doing pretty great Pete, how are you doing?

Doing good man, let's just jump right. I'm doing pretty great Pete. How are you doing?

Doing good man. Let's just jump right into it. What we're here to talk about.

Yeah, we had this thing that, the storm that just did so much damage in Appalachia and immediately in the chat we you know started talking about if anybody wanted to go down there and help and you were the one who jumped

right to the right to the front and said yeah I'll do it even though you're probably one of the ones that

lives a pretty good distance away and everything.

And so, you know, we said that once you got home and you got settled, I'd have you on and we talked about everything that you experienced there.

So why don't you just start from where you where you think the story starts?

Yeah, I mean I think with the start of the story,

that the most important part is exactly where you,

where you picked it up.

We had somebody in the OGC, at least OGC adjacent say I have family in the area I need to check on them and I need help and that's really why I jumped up and I was, well, yeah, it's it this is the point of the OGC that when people

People turn come to us for help come to their brothers for help that we're able to drop what we're doing and go.

And you know, not everyone's able to do that, but there's enough people that are able to do that in

the OGC that we actually did come down there and as I'm discussing this a little bit more I'll be very

vague with with names and with locations because our guys are still down there and there's as of the time of recording

They're still doing their part to try and make sure that this operation goes smoothly because the recovery

effort down there is going to take a very, very long time.

So I guess basically one of the OGC adjacent guys is trying to start up the North Carolina chapter, put out the call and a bunch of people responded.

I went down there, stayed with a fellow OGC member from the Virginia chapter on the way

down so I wouldn't have to make the 14 hour drive in one shot. We had people join us from New Jersey. We had people join us from

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