By Baptist Message staff
ROAN MOUNTAIN, Tennessee (LBM) – A Louisiana Baptist Disaster Relief laundry team from Carey Baptist Association has been deployed to First Baptist Church, Roan Mountain, Tennessee.
According to Carey Baptist Association leaders, the team is expected to arrive at the church on Oct. 5 and set up the newly renovated trailer that volunteers at the church will operate. The trailer is equipped with five washers, five dryers and two generators.
Roan Mountain was among the many communities that was inundated by the floodwaters of Hurricane Helene. The storm is blamed for more than 200 deaths.
According to WJHL-TV, retired National Weather Service Meteorologist Tom Niziol said the flooding was historic.
“The damage here in the Roan Mountain area is what I would refer to as unprecedented,” Niziol told the news stations. “In fact, many locals here had experienced the last major flood back in 1998 that wiped out this area and unfortunately led to some fatalities from drowning. All of those individuals have said to me unequivocally that this event is much worse.”
The laundry team is the latest LBDR team to be sharing Christ’s love in areas hit hard by Helene.
A feeding team from the northern and southeast regions of the state served 600 meals a day at First Baptist Church, Mount Vernon, Georgia, from Sept. 28-Oct. 2. A team from the southeast and northern regions of Louisiana then relieved them and has continued the feeding operations at the church.
