PHILADELPHIA – Girard College high school freshmen are home tonight. The students and their parents all breathed a huge sigh of relief after the 9th graders were stranded in North Carolina. Hurricane Helene hit several days into an Outward Bound trip.
Tiara Dargan’s parents were overjoyed to see their daughter after some sleepless nights. Stephanie Jones says, “Oh my god, I was just so happy. I just hugged my baby. I didn’t want to let her go.” Tiara’s dad echoed her thoughts, “I wasn’t getting out of the car fast enough for her to hug me. ‘Come on Dad, get out of the car.’ I had to hug her real tight.”
Hurricane Helene washed out roads and caused extensive damage. Tiara says she had never been away on a trip without her parents before. “We were on top of a mountain in the woods. It was raining very hard. Yeah, I was scared. I was very scared,” she recalled.…