A volunteer organization is operating a mission to help storm-battered western North Carolina out of Concord’s airport.
Texas-based Operation Airdrop, a nonprofit, started working Monday at a hangar at Concord Regional Airport sending supplies to those that were affected by the hurricane in the mountains and foothills.
The organization began efforts by collecting donations at a local Walmart. People arrived with trucks full of supplies, ranging from diapers, water, and non-perishable food items. The group is using volunteer pilots to fly the supplies to airports in the western part of the state, including Asheville Regional Airport.
In the hangar, volunteers stacked and organized boxes of goods by item type before being loaded. Volunteer Shaun Carroll said seeing people work together brings light to a dark time…