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A man walked into a Costco in Florida and left with 100 generators, all of which are heading to The Bahamas.
His receipt read $49,285.70 and most of that came from paying $450 a pop for 100 generators. Peas, beans, coffee, salt, pepper and other essentials made up the rest of his mega purchase from a Costco in Jacksonville, Florida, on Wednesday.
All of it is going to those in need on the hard-hit islands of Grand Bahama and Abaco, he said.
"About 100 generators and a truck load of food and chainsaws are all going over by boat on Thursday to Marsh Harbour in The Bahamas. It's terrible and I'm sure you've seen the photos," a farmer from Jacksonville told CNN on Wednesday.
The man wishes not to be named. He said he doesn't want the attention and would rather that people focus on helping those affected by Hurricane Dorian in the Bahamas.
"It's important that we help each other out. It's better than just sitting there," he said. "You see a need and you fill it."
The world knows about this man's good deed because someone else was at that Costco buying a generator, as his was going out. He overheard someone talking about what the farmer just did.
"I had to go up there to him and say, 'Thank you for doing this,'" Alec Sprague said. "I am so glad to see someone doing this."
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Sherman A1
(38,958 posts)stonecutter357
(12,682 posts)Brother Buzz
(36,217 posts)Think about it.
lpbk2713
(42,696 posts)Every society has its black marketeers and they may get
to these critically need supplies before anyone else can.
lunamagica
(9,967 posts)Karadeniz
(22,283 posts)elocs
(22,477 posts)that is what a believer should do if they can.
The book of James says that faith without works is dead: "If a brother or sister is poorly clothed and lacking in daily food, and one of you says to them, Go in peace, be warmed and filled, without giving them the things needed for the body, what good is that?"
What good are thoughts and prayers if you could even send a buck to actually help someone?