Illinois woman sends Christmas gifts to church in hurricane-ravaged North Carolina
PLAINFIELD, Ill. -- Like Chicago, parts of the Carolinas are dealing with colder-than-average weather—to the tune of 15 degrees below normal.Down there, it is making a bad situation worse for people still displaced after Hurricane Helene, which devastated parts of the Southeast more than two months ago.But back in the Chicago suburbs, a woman named Terri Horwath has made it a mission to help brighten the hurricane victims' holidays.
I lived here when the F5 tornado came through, and it reminded me of that,' said Horwath, 'and I know how people needed help and how people were every generous and came forward to help us.'The tornado that hit Plainfield on Aug. 28, 1990, left 29 people dead. It destroyed 470 homes and damaged 1,000 buildings.Having experienced that, Horwath wanted to do the same with others that people had done for her community back then.So Horwath reached out to Enon Baptist Church in October.
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