With Hurricane Milton fast approaching, hundreds of workers and volunteers from Michigan are already down South responding to Hurricane Helene cleanup efforts. Now, they’re preparing for yet another round of devastation.
“When you have two of the biggest hurricanes in the last two decades within two weeks of each other, it came at us fast,” said Greg Martin, executive director of Disaster Relief at Work. “Everything we do, it’s a drop in the bucket. But get enough drops, you fill the bucket.”
That mindset is what fuels nonprofits like DRAW. The organization is based in Waterford Township and is preparing to send its sixth truck full of supplies down South on Wednesday to assist with Helene recovery. Martin himself has visited the area, and volunteers are still down in the Carolinas.
“Helene is this generation’s Katrina,” Martin said. “This, in its size and its scope, is the most devastating storm we’ve seen doing this.”
Not even 24 hours after loading that sixth truck, Hurricane Milton is expected to make landfall on Florida’s gulf coast. Martin and DRAW will be responding to help in those cleanup efforts too, although, their warehouse in Mississippi has already been depleted from Helene.