Travelers find aid amid ruin
My family and I drove through the tornado-affected areas on April 28.
We had driven from Texas all night and did not listen to the weather. We were shocked as we drove through Alabama and Georgia, seeing the devastation.
We started trying to find a gas station that was open; the power was out everywhere. Finally we pulled in to a gas station in Ringgold, I think.
It was about 30 minutes from Chattanooga. We had three miles left on our gas tank and frankly, we did not know what we were going to do.
We had three children in our van and headed to Washington, D.C. My daughter saw a lady with a gas container putting gas in a car. I asked her where she got her gas; she said 30 minutes away in Chattanooga. I responded with “oh my,” and she asked where I was from. I told her Texas, and she said “I will give you a gallon of gas.”