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Related: About this forumNoah's Ark except it's a school bus: Truck driver rescues 64 dogs and cats from floods of Hurricane
There is nothing like a meal at the Waffle House after driving more than 60 animals from the South Carolina coast to southern Alabama inside of a school bus. Tony Alsup can attest.
Alsup, a 51-year-old trucker from Greenback, Tenn., was parked at a Waffle House outside Fayetteville, N.C., on Sunday night for a quick pit stop and a plate of waffles and grits. He had been on the road since Monday, when he hopped in his bus and headed toward the coast, committed to rescuing as many animals as possible ahead of Hurricane Florence.
Inside the bus, the seats have been ripped out to make room for its passengers. On the buss side are the words EMERGENCY ANIMAL RESCUE SHELTER. But it could have said Noahs Ark.
In the last week, Alsup and his bus have rescued 53 dogs and 11 cats from South Carolina shelters that were in Florences treacherous path, as first reported by the Greenville News.
And come morning, Alsup expects to search for more.
Im like, look, these are lives too, Alsup told The Washington Post during his Waffle House stop. Animals especially shelter pets they always have to take the back seat of the bus. But Ill give them their own bus. If I have to Ill pay for all the fuel, or even a boat, to get these dogs out of there.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2018/09/17/noahs-ark-except-its-a-school-bus-truck-driver-rescues-64-dogs-and-cats-from-floods-of-hurricane-florence/?utm_term=.c9ac3ac23661
Timmygoat
(779 posts)Is god bless this man! I wish there were more like him.
peacebuzzard
(5,167 posts)God bless this Noahs rescue team of one
geardaddy
(24,926 posts)Bayard
(22,061 posts)You never see statistics on animals lost to storms. This guy is a hero!
Stonepounder
(4,033 posts)With all the crap going on in Washington, we need to be reminded that there are truly great people in this world who go out of their way to 'do the right thing'. They don't do if for glory or for attention, they just do it because its the right thing to do.
Now I have to go blow my nose and wipe my eyes.