Calhoun, Ga., may be more than 800 miles from Houston, Texas, but that didn’t stop two local companies from partnering to offer a helping hand to those affected by Hurricane Harvey.
Mohawk Industries and Nature’s Big Springs Water teamed up to donate and deliver more than 100,000 bottles of water to the Houston area. They split the cost of the water and will leverage Mohawk’s fleet to make the delivery once the roads are passable.
“When we saw the devastation the hurricane caused, we knew we wanted to help, and we also knew we had the means to do so with our trucks,” said Dan Flowers, Mohawk’s logistics vice president.
Mohawk trucks, which travel more than a million miles a year delivering floorcovering shipments, operates a satellite warehouse and several ceramic sales service centers in the Houston area that was flooded by rains from Hurricane Harvey this week. Mohawk employs approximately 140 people in the Houston area – all of whom have been identified as safe and sheltered
“Being in the water business means we have access to an essential relief item when a disaster occurs,” Nature’s Big Springs Water owner Julian Jones said. “Mohawk had the trucks and resources to make this delivery a possibility. Helping others is important to us, and we were glad to partner with Mohawk to make this happen.”