Like many Floridians, Vicki Haynes Campbell knows what’s it like to face a natural disaster. She and her husband were living in Grande Lagoon when Hurricane Ivan clobbered Pensacola in 2004 . The storm wiped out her home along with many others across Northwest Florida and claimed the lives of eight people in Escambia and Santa Rosa counties.
“We lost our house, everything we own. We had two changes of clothes,” Campbell recalled, “but everybody helped us after Ivan.”
Now she wants to help others, including members of her own family, who have been devastated by Hurricane Helene in western North Carolina. As of Monday, Hurricane Helene has already claimed more than 100 lives since the powerful storm roared ashore in Florida and swept through the Southeast leaving a trail of devastation and chaos in its wake…